Overview

is the recently retired president and editor of the  in North Carolina and the Herald of Rock Hill, South Carolina. She previously worked at the newspaper for 14 years in various roles, including assigning editor, reporter and copy editor.  

Chisenhall left Charlotte in&Բ;2000 fǰ t , serving first asmanaging editor, followed by 12 yearsas e𳦳ܳپ&Բ;editor and senior vice president fǰ nɲ. In Kansas, she was a trustee of the William Allen White Foundation, formed in 1945 to support the journalism school at the University of Kansas, aԻ w a&Բ;advisory board member for the Elliott School of Communication at Wichita State&Բ;Ծٲ. į 

She returned to the Observer in 2016 as managing editor and was named e𳦳ܳپ&Բ;editor a year later.  

Chisenhall’s news teams in Charlotte and Wichita have won dozens of journalism awards for news coverage, investigative reporting, feature writing and visuals, as well as innovative work such as podcast series. Journalists in Wichita also published a book on behind-the-scenes police work that led to the capture of the BTK serial killer. 

Chisenhall has been a four-time juror for the , and a judge for the New England Newspaper & Press Association awards and the &Բ;ɲ. įShe has been a panel speaker on news collaboration at the  and the 2021  

Chisenhall serves on  board of directors. She was among the founding editors of the North Carolina News Collaborative and the Charlotte Journalism Collaborative. She is a member of the Online News Association and a past member of the News Leaders Association and .  

She is among the distinguished women leaders serving on the advisory board for the Widener Global Leaders Program at ʹ’s W. Frank Barton School of Business.

native of south-central Illinois, Chisenhall earned a B.S. in journalism and political science from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. She began her career as a copy editor and page designer at the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Mississippi.