Louise Scruggs, a pioneering businesswoman in Nashville and wife of Country Music Hall of Fame member Earl Scruggs. She guided her husband's career for more than a half century, and was the first female to become an artist booking agent in Nashville.

Born Anne Louise Certain, she grew up near Lebanon, Tenn. While attending the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 1946, she first saw Scruggs and heard his groundbreaking style of three-fingered banjo playing while he was working with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. The couple married in 1948 -- the same year Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt left Monroe's band in 1948 to form their own group, the Foggy Mountain Boys.

In 1956, Mrs. Scruggs became one of Nashville's pioneer female executives when she began serving as Flatt & Scruggs' business and booking manager. In addition to booking the band, she aggressively promoted the act within the folk music community and helped inspire the band's series of concept albums, including Songs of the Famous Carter Family and Folk Songs of Our Land. In her greatest career accomplishment, Mrs. Scruggs took Flatt & Scruggs and bluegrass music to a mainstream audience and managed to turn the musical duo into TV stars.