Margaret Johnson Macdonald

Margaret Johnson Macdonald, born and reared in Christian County Kentucky, is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, receiving a B.A. in English and Library Science in 1969. Mrs. Macdonald completed further studies at Spalding University and Austin Peay State University. Now retired, she taught English and was the librarian in Jefferson County schools and the Christian County school system, as well as University Heights Academy in Hopkinsville. She is the wife of retired District Judge Peter Cottrell Macdonald, who is a native of Owensboro. She and Judge Macdonald have two sons, Kevin Andrew Macdonald and Peter Stanton Macdonald, both of whom are married and living in Nashville, Tennessee and Lexington, Kentucky, respectively.

Believing that reading is the core and foundation of all knowledge and that thriving libraries are essential to the success of any community, Mrs. Macdonald has promoted literacy in Christian County by serving as the board president of the Hopkinsville/Christian County Library and board vice-president of the Friends of the Library and board member of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program in Christian County. She has also served as the chairperson of the Hopkinsville Human Relations Commission and as a board member of the Pennyroyal Center in Hopkinsville, a regional facility that provides mental health services to residents of western Kentucky. She was also on the board that established the Christian County Trilogy Center for women, which assists in recovery from substance abuse. She has been the president of the History & Literature Club and the secretary of the Shakespeare Club, women’s literary organizations that have existed in Christian County since before 1900. Mrs. Macdonald is a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, Epsilon Delta chapter, of Western Kentucky University.