Lexy Gross, a May 2015 Murray State University graduate with majors in journalism and political science, has won the Mabel Lee Walton Leadership Award for 2015.
The award is the top individual award that can be won by a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma national sorority. She received the award from national vice president Courtney Stone at the MSU chapter’s Founders Day event in May. She had been the Outstanding Sigma Sigma Sigma member in the region.
Gross was selected to be in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities and was the top senior in the journalism major. She served as president of the Panhellenic Council.
She served in several positions on The Murray State News, including editor in chief.
She had internships with Lexington Herald, the Nashville Tennessean and the Chicago Tribune. She was a correspondent for USA Today, Paducah Life Magazine and the Murray Ledger and Times.
Gross was a Roy Howard National Reporting Competition Fellow, a Top 10 Student Leader at Murray State and the recipient of the William Broughton Fellowship.
She is currently working for the Louisville Courier-Journal.
