Served as publisher, editor of the Ludowici News; Member, S.A.R.; D. A. C.; U. D. C. Vice-Chairman; State Democratic Executive Committee 1937-38; Georgia House of Representatives (1935-1938); Georgia Senate (1941); and, known across Georgia and in the General Assembly as the “Lady from Long."

Married Thomas Auld Selby Coxon on May 14, 1927.