By Joan C. McKinney, director, Office of University Communications

CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. - Hannah Cox, national manager of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, will be speaking at Campbellsville University Monday, Jan. 28 at 6 p.m. in the Banquet Hall of the Badgett Academic Support Center, 110 University Drive, Campbellsville, Ky.

The public is invited to the event that is part of Campbellsville University's Quality Enhancement Plan pertaining to the university's accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty is a network of political and social conservatives who question the alignment of capital punishment with conservative principles and values. They are a project of Equal Justice USA, a national organization working to end the death penalty in the United States.

Cox joins the Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty from the Beacon Center of Tennessee, a free market think tank that works to advance limited government and individual liberty.

She previously worked with the Tennessee Firearms Association (TFA), the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Entertainment One.

Cox graduated with a degree in business administration from Belmont University and serves as the vice chairman of the board for This is Living Ministries, a Tennessee nonprofit that works with women struggling with addiction who are leaving the criminal justice system.

Campbellsville University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award certificates, associate, baccalaureate, and masters. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call (404) 679-4500 for questions about the status of Campbellsville University.

For more information about the event, contact Dr. Shawn Williams at shwilliams@campbellsville.edu at (270) 789-5264.

Campbellsville University is a widely-acclaimed Kentucky-based Christian university with more than 13,000 students offering more than 90 programs of study including Ph.D., master, baccalaureate, associate, pre-professional and certification programs. The university has off-campus centers in Kentucky cities Louisville, Harrodsburg, Somerset, Hodgenville and Liberty with Kentucky instructional sites in Elizabethtown, Owensboro and Summersville. The university also has a full complement of online programs. The website for complete information is campbellsville.edu.