RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The Chicago City Council has been informed of Judy Carline Woodruff s departure of PBS NewsHour as anchor and managing editor on December 30, 2022 by Alderman Edward M. Burke; and
WHEREAS, Judy is the anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour and will be stepping down at the end of the year, but plans to continue contributing to the program as senior correspondent; and
WHEREAS, Judy is an American broadcast journalist who has worked in network, cable, and public television news since 1976; and
WHEREAS, Judy was born on November 20, 1946, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to William H. Woodruff, a chief warrant officer in the Army, and Anna Lee (n£e Payne) Woodruff; and
WHEREAS, She has one sister, Anita in which both grew up as army brats, and because of that moved multiple times during their childhood, attending seven schools between kindergarten and seventh grade; and
WHEREAS, After graduating from Duke University in 1,968, Judy entered local television news in Atlanta; and
WHEREAS, Judy was named White House correspondent for NBC News in 1976, a position she held for six years; and
WHEREAS, 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; and
WHEREAS, Judy moved to CNN in 1993 to host Inside Politics and CAW WorldView together with Bernard Shaw, and returned to PBS and the NewsHour in 2006; and
WHEREAS, In 2013, Judy and Gwen Ifill were named its official anchors, succeeding founding presenter Jim Lehrer; and
WHEREAS, Judy and Gwen shared managing newsgathering duties until Gwen's death in 2016, and Judy became the program's sole main presenter; and
WHEREAS, Judy wrote the book This Is Judy Woodruff at the White House, in which she described her experiences as a journalist; and
WHEREAS, Over her career, she has advocated women's organizations, and was part of a group of journalists that founded the International Women's Media Foundation, an organization that internationally supports women in the media; and
WHEREAS, She has served on the International Women's Media Foundation board of directors, and is part of its advisory council; and
WHEREAS, Judy and her husband, Al Hunt, have actively supported families, of children with spina bifida (a condition shared by their eldest son, Jeffrey) with counseling and other necessary services; and
WHEREAS, The couple helped organize the Spina Bifida Association of America's annual roast, during which politicians toast, journalists to raise funds for the association; and
WHEREAS, Judy has also served on the boards of trustees of a number of other organizations, including the Newseum, the Freedom Foium, the. National Museum of American History, Global Rights, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, America's Promise, the Urban Insti tute, The Duke Endowment, and the John S. Knight.Journalism Fellowships at Stanford; and.
WHEREAS, Judy is a former member of the Knight Commission and a current member ofthe Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; now, therefore
BEIT RESOLVED, That we, the Mayor and the members ofthe Chicago City Council, aissembied this fourteenth day of December; 2022, do hereby recognize Judy stepping down as \h& PBS NewsHour anchor and managing editor on December 30, 2022 as well as her lifetime achievements and accolades; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a suitable copy ofthis resolution be presented to Judy along with the congratulations and. best wishes of the City of Chicago, and be it further resolved, that December 30, 2022 be declared Judy Carline Woodruff'Day in the City of Chicago.
