Carol Lynne Rice Allen (born October 11, 1943) is the widow of former Kentucky State Senator Nelson Allen, a retired public school teacher, and the unsuccessful Democratic nominee in the Kentucky State Senate election in the state's 18th Senate District, narrowly losing to incumbent Republican Charlie Borders.Allen is a 1961 graduate of Ashland High School in Ashland, Kentucky, USA. She attended Eastern Kentucky University and graduated from Morehead State University in 1965 with a B.S.