Lucy M. Nulton (June 18, 1903 â November 23, 2000) was an American educator. She taught at East Carolina Teachers College, and worked at the P. K. Yonge Laboratory School at the University of Florida.
Nulton was born in Missouri, the daughter of John Nulton and Letha Ellen Jackson Nulton. She graduated Peabody College in Tennessee in 1928, and earned a master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1933.
Nulton was on the faculty at East Carolina Teachers College in the 1930s and 1940s. She was second vice-president of the North Carolina Association for Childhood Education. In the 1950s and 1960s, she was a teacher and researcher at the P. K. Yonge Laboratory School at the University of Florida. She was first vice-president of the Alachua County Association for Childhood Education. She was named Gainesville's Teacher of the Year in 1960.
Nulton also played violin, and was a member of the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra. She took a particular interest in children's songs and rhymes, especially those used in jumping rope.
Nulton was a "prolific" academic writer, and her research appeared in scholarly journals including Peabody Journal of Education, The North Carolina Teacher, Childhood Education, The High School Journal, Educational Leadership, The Journal of American Folklore, and Elementary English.
Nulton died in 2000, at the age of 97, in Tallahassee, Florida.