Judy Carline Woodruff is an American broadcast journalist who has worked in network, cable, and public television news since 1976.
She is the anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour. Woodruff has covered every presidential election and convention since 1976. She has interviewed several heads of state and moderated U.S. presidential debates.
Judy Woodruff Parents: Meet William H. Woodruff, Anna Lee Woodruff
William H. Woodruff and Anna Lee Woodruff were the parents of Judy Woodruff.
Judy’s mother Anna Lee Woodruff passed away after a brief illness on Sunday, January 20, 2013, at Doctors Hospital in Augusta.
She was born Anna Lee Payne on May 16, 1923, in Springfield, Missouri, to the late Lela Payne Crow and the late Carl Payne. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and moved to Augusta in 1958 after almost a decade of travels with her late husband, Retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer William H. Woodruff, to his assignments in Oklahoma, Germany, Missouri, New Jersey, and Taiwan.
Judy’s father William H. Woodruff, was a retired U.S. Army, Chief Warrant Officer. He died in 1986.