While I never personally met Anne Cox Chambers when I worked at Cox, every employee in Atlanta always knew when she was coming to the Cox Enterprises offices for a board meeting. We would get an email 2 or 3 days ahead letting everyone know that Anne and Barbara would be in the building. Security was always heightened and the flowers always seemed to be in bloom the days they visited. I worked at Cox for 25 years and was fortunate to be employed by a family owned company. I interacted many times with Mr. Kennedy, who is her nephew. Their family history and legacy is significant, certainly they've made an impact in the city of Atlanta and the thousands of employees who work and have worked at Cox Enterprises and their related companies and businesses. The Atlanta Journal Constitution ran the editorial cartoon below, created by Mike Lukovich who has worked at the AJC since 1989. The AJC newspaper is owned by Cox Enterprises.
Anne Cox Chambers, media heiress and former US ambassador, has died at 100
Anne Cox Chambers, who with her sister took over the family media conglomerate that became Cox Enterprises and once served as US ambassador to Belgium, died Friday at her Atlanta home at the age of 100, the company said.
Chambers and her sister Barbara Cox Anthony in the 1970s became controlling owners of the newspaper, TV and radio empire founded by their father, three-term Ohio governor and onetime presidential candidate James M. Cox.
Forbes estimated her net worth at $17 billion in 2016. Two years earlier, she was Georgia's richest person -- one of only six women at the time to lead their state in net worth, according to global wealth-tracking company Wealth-X.
"My aunt, a vivacious and charismatic woman, was very proud of Cox Enterprises' success and the accomplishments of its employees," Jim Kennedy, Cox Enterprises chairman and Chambers' nephew, said.