Christy Gaylord Everest is the chair and chief executive officer of Oklahoma Publishing Company, which publishes The Oklahoman

The Oklahoman

The Oklahoman is the largest daily newspaper in Oklahoma and is the only daily newspaper that covers the entire Oklahoma City area.-Ownership:...

, a major metro newspaper that has been owned by her family since before Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

 statehood in 1907. She is the daughter of Edward L. Gaylord and the grand-daughter of Edward K. Gaylord

Edward K. Gaylord

Edward King Gaylord , often referred to as E.K. Gaylord, was the owner and publisher of the Daily Oklahoman newspaper , as well as a radio and television entrepreneur. Born in Kansas and educated in Colorado, he worked on several publications before moving to Oklahoma and buying an interest in the...

. She is a former chair of the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents.