ASHLAND INC. NAMES JOHNSON VICE PRESIDENT, COMMUNICATIONS AND CORPORATE AFFAIRS
10 December 2003 - Ashland Inc

Johnson will lead a team that is responsible for all aspects of Ashland's internal and external communications, community relations, corporate philanthropy and event coordination. She also will serve as a member of Ashland Inc.'s Operating Committee.

Johnson joined Ashland in 1987 as supervisor of employee publications. She was promoted through various communications positions of increasing responsibility and in 2002 was named vice president, divisional communications, and director, corporate communications.

A native of Worthington, Ky., Johnson earned an associate degree in journalism from Ashland Community College, a bachelor's degree in public relations from Western Kentucky University, and is a graduate of Ashland's Executive Development Program at Indiana University. She presently serves as the chairman of the Partnership for Kentucky Schools board of directors, and as a board member of the Public Affairs Council, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System Foundation and Leadership Kentucky.

O'Brien welcomed Johnson to her new responsibilities and congratulated and thanked Lacy for his remarkable history of dedicated service to Ashland. Lacy has accepted the position of vice president, institutional affairs, with The College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati. He has been serving as a volunteer
member of the college's business advisory board and will step down from that post.

Lacy joined Ashland Inc. as a member of its public relations staff in 1975 and was named vice president of corporate communications in 1986. He assumed his current post as vice president of corporate affairs in 1998.

Lacy is a recipient of the University of Kentucky's Lifetime Achievement Award for Public Relations from the University's School of Journalism and Telecommunications. A Morehead State University graduate, he was inducted into the university's Alumni Hall of Fame in 1988.

He is the immediate past chairman of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, was a founding director of the Kentucky First Amendment Congress and previously served as chairman of the Kentucky Press Association and the West Virginia Broadcasters Business Associates Group. He currently serves as a board member of the Partnership for Kentucky Schools, serves on the Communications Council of The Conference Board and remains active in many other civic and professional groups.

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