Mary Lou Forbes

Mary Lou Forbes is the Commentary Page Editor at The Washington Times. Mrs. Forbes previously worked as a reporter and editor at the now-defunct Washington Star. She also has been executive editor of a computerized information retrieval service operated by a subsidiary of the Reader's Digest.

Mrs. Forbes won the Pulitzer Prize in 1959 for her coverage of public school desegregation. In recent years, she has been a member of the jury of the Pulitzer’s Board for Editorial Writing