Phillip Blanchard, Cathy Ruhl and Ben Blanchard

     Phillip Blanchard is a copy editor. From 2000 to 2008, he worked on the Washington Post financial copy desk. Previously, he worked at the Chicago Sun-Times., the Times Union of Albany, N.Y., and the Schenectady (N.Y.) Gazette.
      Catherine E. "Cathy" Ruhl is associate director for  women's health programs at the
Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses in Washington, D.C. She is also  a  certified nurse midwife at Providence Hospital in Washington.    Also in Washington, she has worked at Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care.  She is former director of  the Nurse Midwifery Service at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. Previously she was a midwife at the University of Illinois at Chicago Hospital  and Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas and the University of Illinois at Chicago.
     Benjamin R. "Ben" Blanchard was born on June 15, 1997. He is a student at
North Bethesda Middle School.

     Phil, Cathy and Ben live in Bethesda, Md., just outside Washington.

 

Phil: blanp@testycopyeditors.org  Cathy: cathy@cathyruhl.com

Ben: ben@testycopyeditors.com

Phillip Blanchard is proprietor of the Testy Copy Editors Web site