- Graduated from the University of North Texas
- Miss America 1971
- Miss Texas 1970
- Founded two companies in her business career. The first was "Chicken By George", which revolutionized the retail chicken industry in the 1980s. In the mid-1990s, she sold the company to Hormel Foods. In 2003, she created "Phyllis George Beauty", which markets a line of cosmetics and skincare through television shopping network HSN.
- Ex-husband John Y. Brown is the former governor of Kentucky, and George splits her time between NYC and Lexington, KY.
- Son, Lincoln Brown (born 1980), graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Daughter, Pamela Brown (born 1983), attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a weekend morning news anchor/general assignment reporter with ABC7/WJLA-TV in Washington, DC.
- Founded the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft.
- Founding member of the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship.
- In 1991 the National Association of Women Business Owners named her the Celebrity Women Business Owner of the Year.
- Authored five books: The I Love America Diet (1982), Kentucky Crafts: Handmade and Heartfelt (1989), Craft in America: Celebrating The Creative Work of the Hand (1993), Living With Quilts: Fifty Great American Quilts (1998) and Never Say Never : 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't into Yes I Can! (2002).
- Has two grandchildren: grandson Ben Wright (born in June, 2018) and granddaughter Vienne Wright (born in February, 2020).
- Ex-sister-in-law of Charles Evans.
- Mother-in-law of Adam Wright.
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