Woodruff at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. in 2024
Born
Judy Carline Woodruff
(1946-11-20) November 20, 1946 (age 77)
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Education
Duke University (BA)
Occupation
Journalist
Years active
1970–present
Television
PBS NewsHour
Spouse
Al Hunt
(m. 1980)
Children
3
Judy Carline Woodruff (born November 20, 1946) is an American broadcast journalist who has worked in local, network, cable, and public television news since 1970. She was the anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour through the end of 2022. Woodruff has covered every presidential election and convention since 1976. She has interviewed several heads of state and moderated U.S. presidential debates.[1]
After graduating from Duke University in 1968, Woodruff entered local television news in Atlanta. She was named White House correspondent for NBC News in 1976, a position she held for six years. She joined PBS in 1982, where she continued White House reports for the PBS NewsHour, formerly The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, in addition to presenting another program. She moved to CNN in 1993 to host Inside Politics and CNN WorldView together with Bernard Shaw, until he left CNN. Woodruff left CNN in 2005, and returned to PBS and the NewsHour in 2006. In 2013, she and Gwen Ifill were its named official anchors, succeeding founding presenter Jim Lehrer. Woodruff and Ifill shared managing newsgathering duties until Ifill's death in 2016. Woodruff succeeded Ifill as the program's sole main presenter.[2] In May 2022, Woodruff announced that she would step down as the NewsHour's anchor at year's end,[3][4] and her final day as anchor was on December 30, 2022.[5]
^"Judy Woodruff". National Museum of American History. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
^Cite error: The named reference CNNmoney was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Rosman, Katherine (November 11, 2022). "Judy Woodruff Is Too Busy for Nostalgia: At 75, 'the last grown-up in Washington journalism' prepares to sign off after nearly a decade as an anchor of 'PBS NewsHour'". The New York Times. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
^"PBS' Judy Woodruff plans to step down as 'NewsHour' anchor". ABC News. Associated Press. May 14, 2022. Archived from the original on May 19, 2022. Retrieved May 19, 2022.
^"Judy Woodruff's goodbye message to viewers as she departs NewsHour anchor desk". PBS. December 30, 2022. Archived from the original on December 31, 2022. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
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