Cynthia Tucker is the editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist whose work appears in dozens of newspapers. She is also a popular television commentator.

Tucker's wide-ranging interests are evident in her twice-weekly column, in which she has taken on topics as varied as voting rights, immigration reform, the importance of education and the misguided war on drugs. In her capacity as editorial page editor, she is responsible for guiding the development of the Journal-Constitution's opinion policies on national and international affairs as well as state and local issues.

Tucker has won many awards and honors, including the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award, the University of Alabama's Clarence Cason Writing Award and Colby College's Elijah Lovejoy Award. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2007.

She graduated from Auburn University in 1976 and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in the 1988-89 academic year.

Tucker is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the National Association of Minority Media Executives, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Atlanta Press Club and the Council on Foreign Relations.