Coyne, Catherine.

Catherine Mary Coyne (1907-1992) was born in Portland, Maine, and graduated from Boston University, where she was the first woman appointed to a senior staff position at the Boston University News. She was a reporter for the Boston Herald in Europe from May 1944 to July 1945. Coyne was one of the few American women permitted to accompany troops as they landed in Normandy and fought their way into Germany. In October 1945 she returned to Europe, attending the Nuremberg trials before returning to the United States in January 1946. She married Judge Eugene A. Hudson in 1949. They had no children. Coyne died on Cape Cod in September 1992.

Born on April 17, 1907, in Portland, Maine, Catherine Mary (Coyne) Hudson graduated from the School of Journalism at Boston University where she became the first woman appointed to an upper staff position at Boston University News. In 1934 she began writing for the Boston Herald and served as their foreign correspondent in Europe from May 1944 to July 1945. She was one of the first women allowed to accompany Allied troops as they landed in Normandy. From October 1945 to January 1946 she returned to Europe to report on the Nuremberg trials. Upon her return to the states, she became engaged to Judge Eugene (Gene) A. Hudson of the Massachusetts Superior Court. The couple married in 1949 and had no children. Though Coyne assumed Hudson's surname, professionally, she retained Coyne. She died in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, on September 25, 1992.