Ruth Sulzberger Holmberg was a newspaper publisher and member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family. She graduated from Smith College and worked as a Red Cross volunteer during World War II. In 1946, she moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee with her then husband, Ben Hale Golden, who was to train to become the eventual publisher of The Chattanooga Times. In 1984, she was elected president of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. In 1987, she was elected a director of The Associated Press. She served on the board of The New York Times from 1961 to 1998.