Judy Woodruff is an American broadcast journalist who has worked in network, cable, and public television news since 1975. She was the anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour through the end of 2022. Ms. Woodruff has covered every presidential election and convention since 1976. She has interviewed multiple heads of state and moderated U.S. Presidential debates. After graduating from Duke University, Ms. 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. Ms. Woodruff joined PBS in 1983, as Chief Washington Correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. She moved to CNN in 1993 to anchor Inside Politics and CNN’s WorldView together with Bernard Shaw. Woodruff left CNN in 2005 and returned to PBS a year later. In 2013, the PBS NewsHour named her and the late Gwen Ifill the first two women to co-anchor a national newscast.
