Lucy Schultze of Oxford has been selected as a statewide finalist for Sales and Marketing Professionals’ 2024 Mississippi Pinnacle Awards, which honor excellence, professionalism, and outstanding achievement in sales, marketing, and community engagement and showcase the highest level of public relations talent in the state.

Schultze, the founder and CEO of Red Window Communications, an integrated strategic communications and PR agency, will be honored at an awards gala to take place at Lake Terrace Convention Center on April 9 in Hattiesburg.

“I am honored to be named a finalist, and I attribute this milestone to our team-building at Red Window Communications over the last six years,” Schultze said. “Red Window has become a versatile, multidisciplinary team of both established and emerging communications professionals.”

Red Window’s work spans a broad range of client sectors throughout the Southeast, including nonprofits, associations, research centers and institutes, healthcare, holding companies, tourism, construction and professional firms. The agency has a full-time team of 10 based in Oxford, Memphis and Nashville.

Before starting Red Window, Schultze was an award-winning journalist and a former instructor of writing for integrated marketing communications with the University of Mississippi School of Journalism. She has been a contributing writer for Medical News Papers in markets including Mississippi, Memphis, Tampa, Fla., and Raleigh-Durham, N.C. After 13 years as a community journalist, she spent five years as communications coordinator for Oxford Treatment Center, a 100-bed inpatient facility for substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health disorders.