IWMF Live with Judy Woodruff

At the end of Judy Woodruff’s (Bio) successful interview for a job as secretary to the news director at WQKI, the ABC affiliate in Atlanta, the news director said to the recent college graduate: “How could I not hire someone with legs like yours?”

Woodruff “fell” intro broadcasting after graduating from Duke University and after spending two summers as an intern on Capitol Hill.

In a recent Q and A with the IWMF, she gave credit to four men as the mentors who supported her and gave her huge breaks in her career. She says she faced “the typical discrimination that women have faced over the years,” which she combated by “working hard and proving that I could do it.”

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