Christine Sadler

Christine Sadler (1902–1983), born in Silver Point, Putnam County, Tennessee, was an American writer, journalist, and magazine editor.

Originally a journalist for the Nashville Banner (1930–1936), she was a reporter, national news bureau staffer and Sunday Editor for The Washington Post from 1937 until 1946.

She was appointed and served as a charter member of The Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services from 1956 through 1959.

While continuing to write for the Post on a freelance basis for many years, Sadler became Washington, D.C. editor of McCall's magazine in 1944 until her retirement from that position in 1971.

She was survived in death by her husband, Richard L. Coe, theater critic emeritus for the Post.