Judy Woodruff Salary, Net Worth 2023, Age, Husband and Kids

Judy Woodruff Salary

Judy Woodruff’s salary is $2.5 million every year and gets a monthly salary of $127,870, she is an American broadcast journalist who has served in network, cable, and public television news since 1976.

She is the current anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour. Woodruff has covered every presidential election and convention since 1976.

Year	2023	2024
Judy Woodruff Salary	$2.5 million	$3 million
Judy Woodruff Net Worth	$8 million	$9.8 million

PBS NewsHour news anchors receive an average salary of $74 thousand p.a and it ranges from $25 thousand p.a to $125 thousand p.a.

Judy Woodruff Net Worth 2023

Woodruff is estimated to have a net worth of $9.8 million dollars at present. She has accumulated her net worth with the versatility she has shown in each field she has worked in.

Her main source of earnings is her journalism career. As she progresses in her career, her net worth is projected to rise.

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Judy Woodruff Biography

Judy Woodruff, full name, Judy Carline Woodruff (born November 20, 1946) is a broadcast journalist in the United States who has worked in network, cable, and public television news since 1976.

She is the PBS NewsHour’s anchor and managing editor. Since 1976, Woodruff has covered every presidential election and convention. She has interviewed various heads of state and mediated presidential debates in the United States.

Woodruff began her career in local television news in Atlanta after graduating from Duke University in 1968. In 1976, she was named NBC News’ White House correspondent, a job she held for six years.

She joined PBS in 1982, where she resumed White House reports for PBS NewsHour, originally The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, while also hosting another show.

Woodruff joined CNN in 1993 to co-host Inside Politics and CNN WorldView with Bernard Shaw, who later departed the network. Woodruff departed CNN in 2005, and in 2006, he returned to PBS and the NewsHour.

She and Gwen Ifill were made official anchors in 2013, after founding presenter Jim Lehrer. Until Ifill’s death in 2016, Woodruff and Ifill shared management of news gathering duties. Woodruff took over as the program’s sole main presenter after Ifill.

Judy Woodruff Age, How old is Woodruff?

Woodruff is 77 years of age as of 2023, she was born on November 20, 1946, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She celebrates her birthday every year on November 20 and her birth sign is Scorpio.4

Year	2023	2024
Judy Woodruff Age	77 years	78 years

Judy Woodruff Family and Education

Woodruff was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on November 20, 1946, to William H. Woodruff, a chief warrant officer in the Army, and Anna Lee (née Payne) Woodruff.

Judy Woodruff Salary, Net Worth 2023, Age, Husband and Kids

Anita is her only sibling. She grew up as an army brat, and as a result, she moved about a lot during her childhood, attending seven different schools between kindergarten and seventh grade.

When Woodruff was five years old, her family relocated from Oklahoma to Germany. She then went to army stations in Missouri and New Jersey, returned to Oklahoma, lived in Taiwan for a few years, and then proceeded to North Carolina before settling in Augusta, Georgia, where her father was stationed at Fort Gordon.

Woodruff attended the Academy of Richmond County, an Augusta high school. She won the beauty competition Young Miss Augusta in 1963.

Woodruff began his studies at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1964, with the intention of majoring in mathematics.

In an interview, she stated that her Meredith political science instructor sparked her interest in politics. Woodruff transferred to Duke University in 1966 after two years at Meredith.

She was involved in Duke’s student government and a member of the sorority Alpha Delta Pi.

During her studies, Woodruff served as an intern for Georgia Representative Robert Grier Stephens Jr. for two summers, but she was discouraged from working in Washington, D.C. because of how women were treated there.

In her senior year, Woodruff decided to pursue a career in journalism.

In 1968, she earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Duke. Between 1985 until 1997, she was a member of Duke’s board of trustees.

Woodruff was conferred an honorary degree (D.H.L.) by Duke in 1998, as well as honorary degrees (LL.D.) from the University of Scranton in 1991 and the University of Pennsylvania in 2005.

Judy Woodruff Husband

Woodruff is a married woman, she is married to her husband Al Hunt. Her husband is an American columnist and a former reporter, and they live in Washington, D.C. with another residence in nearby Maryland.

The pair first met during a softball game between journalists and staff of the Carter presidential campaign in Plains, Georgia, in 1976. Their wedding took place on April 5, 1980, in St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.

Judy Woodruff Children

They are parents to three adult children, Jeffrey (1981), Benjamin (1986), and Lauren (1989). Woodruff gave birth to her firstborn, Jeffrey about five hours after appearing on air.

Jeffrey was born with a condition, a mild case of spina bifida, and became disabled and brain-damaged after a surgery in 1998, which forced Woodruff to lessen her workload at CNN. Lauren, her lastborn was adopted from Korea when she was four months old.