Hickok graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a bachelor’s degree in business, majoring in accounting and finance. Additionally, she is a graduate of the Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketers’ Executive Management Program and the Scripps Leadership Institute and, in 2012, she was named a recipient of the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation’s “Women in Numbers” award. Lori is also a member of the Board of Director of Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee.