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Besides being a secretary, she presented the weather forecast on Sundays in her last six months at the station. She was hired as a secretary at the news department of the ABC affiliate in Atlanta, Georgia ( WQXI-TV), and began working after she graduated in 1968. Woodruff applied for her first job in journalism during the spring break of her senior year at Duke. Career From local television to White House correspondent Woodruff received an honorary degree ( D.H.L.) from Duke in 1998 and was also awarded honorary degrees by the University of Scranton in 1991 and by the University of Pennsylvania ( LL.D.) in 2005. She served on Duke's board of trustees between 19. She graduated from Duke with a bachelor's degree in political science in 1968. Woodruff decided to enter journalism in her senior year.

as an intern during two summers, but was discouraged from working in Washington, D.C., because of how women were treated there. While studying, Woodruff worked for Georgia Representative Robert Grier Stephens Jr. She was active in the student government of Duke, and was a member of the sorority Alpha Delta Pi.

After two years at Meredith, Woodruff transferred to Duke University in 1966. In an interview, she said that her political science teacher at Meredith got her interested in politics. Woodruff attended Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, starting in 1964, initially pursuing a degree in mathematics. In 1963, she won the beauty pageant Young Miss Augusta. Woodruff went to the Academy of Richmond County, a high school in Augusta. She then moved to army bases in Missouri and New Jersey, returned to Oklahoma, lived in Taiwan for a few years, and subsequently went to North Carolina, before settling in the Augusta, Georgia, area, when her father was stationed at Fort Gordon. Woodruff moved from Oklahoma to Germany when she was five years old. She grew up as an army brat, and because of that moved multiple times during her childhood, attending seven schools between kindergarten and seventh grade. Woodruff, a chief warrant officer in the Army, and Anna Lee (née Payne) Woodruff. Woodruff was born on November 20, 1946, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to William H.

2.1 From local television to White House correspondent.

Woodruff succeeded Ifill as the program's sole main presenter. Woodruff and Ifill shared managing newsgathering duties until Ifill's death in 2016. In 2013, she and Gwen Ifill were its named official anchors, succeeding founding presenter Jim Lehrer. Woodruff left CNN in 2005, and returned to PBS and the NewsHour in 2006. She moved to CNN in 1993 to host Inside Politics and CNN WorldView together with Bernard Shaw, until he left CNN. She joined PBS in 1982, where she continued White House reports for PBS NewsHour, formerly The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, in addition to presenting another program. She was named White House correspondent for NBC News in 1976, a position she held for six years. Īfter graduating from Duke University in 1968, Woodruff entered local television news in Atlanta. She has interviewed several heads of state and moderated U.S. Woodruff has covered every presidential election and convention since 1976. She is the anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour. Judy Carline Woodruff (born November 20, 1946) is an American broadcast journalist who has worked in network, cable, and public television news since 1976.