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 Founda...
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