TITLE

CEO, Lee Enterprises.AGE

54PERSONAL

Raised on a family farm near Ogden, Iowa. Two older brothers, one a farmer and the other a high school teacher in Des Moines.FAMILY

Husband, Ralph Gibson, owns a plumbing, heating, and air-conditioning supply company. One daughter, 13. One stepson, 27.EDUCATION

B.A. in English from Valparaiso University, 1969. Master's in journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1971.CAREER

Started out as $10,000-a-year marketing researcher in Charlotte rising to corporate management at Knight-Ridder. Hired as publisher in St. Paul and then at Times Mirror's Baltimore Sun. Promoted in 1997 to executive vice-president at Times Mirror Co. and president of Times Mirror Eastern Newspapers. Overseeing Newsday and the Hartford Courant. Joined Lee Enterprises in 1999 as COO. Promoted to top job two years later.HOBBIES

Leading Girl Scouts in Pleasant Valley, Iowa; teaching Sunday school.

Data: Lee Enterprises, BusinessWeek