The Fascinating Reason Why Psychology Helped Elizabeth McCall Become Woodford Reserve's Master Distiller

Elizabeth McCall never expected to spend her career nosing barrels and shaping one of America’s most popular bourbons. When she finished graduate school with a master’s in counseling psychology, she imagined a very different life for herself. 

“I thought I’d have an office with a couch and do therapy,” she says. “But it was very intimidating, and not what I had this glamorous vision of.”

Then she heard about an opening at Brown‑Forman, the parent company of Woodford Reserve and Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey.