JUDY WOODRUFF

In addition to her daily duties, Woodruff co-anchors CNN's special coverage of such events as political conventions and summits. In September, 1995 she traveled to Beijing to cover the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. She has moderated CNN's first two "Global Forums:" an international town meeting with President Clinton in 1994 and former President Carter in 1995. She was also co-anchor for CNN's coverage of Richard Nixon's funeral. She joined CNN in 1993.

Woodruff has been covering politics and campaigns from Carter to Clinton. She moderated the 1988 Vice-Presidential debate and has reported on every national political convention and presidential campaign since 1976.

In the ten years prior to joining to CNN, Woodruff was the chief Washington correspondent for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. From 1970-1974, she was a correspondent for WAGA-TV, the CBS affiliate in Augusta,Georgia where she reported on the State Legislature for five years and anchored the noon and evening new.

Her book, This is Judy Woodruff at the White House , published in 1982 by Addison-Wesley, documents her experiences as a journalist.

In 1996, Woodruff and Shaw won a CableAce Award for best anchor team for their work on Inside Politics . In 1985, Woodruff won a CableAce Award for best newscaster. The CableAce Award is the cable industry's most prestigious award from the National Academy of Cable Programming. In 1995, she and her husband Al Hunt, were recognized by the Freedom Forum by receiving the Allen H. Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1994, she was the first recipients of the National Women's Hall of Fame "President's 21st Century Award." In 1994, she and her husband were named one of the Washingtonians of the Year by Washingtonian magazine for their fund raising work to fight Spina Bifida. In 1986, the NewsHour was awarded the first Joan Shorenstein Barone Prize by the Washington Radio Television Correspondents Association for Woodruff's series on national defense issues. In 1975, Woodruff received an Emmy Award from the Atlanta chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Woodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women's Media Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging women in the communications industries worldwide. She serves on the Board of Advisors for the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University, the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, and on the board of Directors for the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Urban Institute. Woodruff is a graduate of Duke University, where she serves on its Board of Trustees.

Woodruff's husband, Al Hunt, is the executive Washington editor of the The Wall Street Journal and a panelist on CNN's political talk show The Capital Gang. Woodruff and Hunt have three children and reside in Washington, DC.

Archive of Virtual Take Our Daughters to Work Day chat on April 23, 1998.