Judy Woodruff

Since 1976, Judy Carline Woodruff has been an accomplished American broadcast journalist, working in network, cable, and public television news. Throughout her career, she covered every presidential election and convention since 1976, conducted numerous interviews with heads of state, and moderated U.S. presidential debates. After graduating from Duke University in 1968, Woodruff began her career in local television news in Atlanta before being appointed as the White House correspondent for NBC News in 1976, a role she held for six years. She joined PBS in 1982, where she continued her White House reports for the PBS NewsHour (formerly The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour), in addition to hosting another program. In 1993, Woodruff moved to CNN to co-host Inside Politics and CNN WorldView with Bernard Shaw until he left the network. She then returned to PBS and the NewsHour in 2006 after leaving CNN in 2005. In 2013, Woodruff and Gwen Ifill were named official anchors, succeeding founding presenter Jim Lehrer, and they shared managing newsgathering duties until Ifill's passing in 2016. Woodruff then succeeded Ifill as the program's sole main presenter. In May 2022, Woodruff announced her intention to step down as the NewsHour's anchor at year's end, and she delivered her final broadcast on December 30, 2022.

From 2006 – 2013, Judy anchored a monthly program for Bloomberg Television, “Conversations with Judy Woodruff.” In 2006, she was a visiting professor at Duke University’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. In 2005, she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

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