Raquel Rutledge

Raquel Rutledge is an American newspaper reporter. At age 42 in April 2010 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting; she had covered, or uncovered, the "Wisconsin Shares" child-care system in "Cashing In on Kids", a series for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which also won the 2010 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Her work also won the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting and George Polk Awards in 2009.

Raquel Rutledge is a Milwaukee native. She graduated from Shorewood High School and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Before joining the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2004, she had worked for the Waukesha Freeman and the Colorado Springs Gazette.