Elizabeth Brinton

Who is Elizabeth Brinton?

Elizabeth Brinton, sometimes referred to as the "Cookie Queen," holds the record for selling the most Girl Scout cookies. The Gold Award-winning Girl Scout was born in Fairfax, Virginia to parents Fullerton Brinton and mother Noel Chambers Brinton. Brinton joined her local Brownie troop in 1978 and first established her hold as a record cookie seller when she won a local Washington, D.C. contest by selling 11,200 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in 1985. She went on to sell a record 18,000 boxes in one season and more than 100,000 boxes in her time as a Girl Scout. Her record held for more than twenty-nine years, until Katie Francis sold 18,107 boxes in 2014.