Camille Davis

Age: 46

Newspaper Editor, Cape Heights Chronicle

Camille is one of those women that has managed to successfully mix both career and family, and for the most part be happy with both. She married Sam Davis while she was still in college, much to the displeasure of her parents. They struggled financially in the early years, with Camille still in college and Sam a young cop. In the end, though, they prevailed. Now both are at the top of their profession, and they have three grown children.

Camille has worked her way to the top at the Cape Heights Chronicle, where she has worked since college, when she worked in the mailroom. She is enjoying her position as Editor in Chief, and has set new goals for the paper. She wants to increase circulation beyond Cape Heights into the rest of the Coastal communities in Oregon. More importantly than that, Camille wants the paper to break that “big” story that might put it in the national spotlight. She has several eager young reporters on her staff, particularly Shawn Wesley, and she is hounding him to break that story whatever it might be. Sam is beginning to pressure Camille, in the meantime, about not hindering his investigations with her paper’s aggressive news coverage. Camille is becoming increasingly unhappy about this, and she and Sam have begun to argue about it.

In addition to her work, Camille dotes on her family. She has always supported daughter Trisha in her singing career, enrolling her in music lessons and classes as earlier as possible in her childhood. She is upset about the prejudice that her daughter has encountered in the music profession, and will do whatever she can to help Trisha achieve her goals. Her active involvement in Trisha’s career has caused Camille’s other children to feel somewhat slighted, thinking that Trisha is Camille’s favored child. That isn’t necessarily true, but Aubrey and Aeryn sometimes think it is, because Camille doesn’t spend as much time with them or show as much interest in their futures.