Candy Crowley

Candy Crowley
Crowley in Houston, Texas, February 19, 2008
Born	Candy Alt Crowley December 26, 1948 (1948-12-26) Michigan
Education	Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Occupation	Broadcast journalist
Notable credit(s)	Inside Politics Anchor of State of the Union
Title	Chief Political Correspondent and Anchor
Website
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/crowley.candy.html CNN Bio

Candy Alt Crowley (1948–) is an American news anchor currently employed as CNN's Chief Political Correspondent, specializing in U.S. presidential, gubernatorial, and Senate elections. She is based in CNN's Washington bureau. She has covered elections for over two decades.

Biography

Early life

Candy Alt Crowley was born in Michigan on 26 December 1948. She attended Principia College in Elsah, Illinois before transferring to Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

Career

Crowley started her career as a newsroom assistant with the Washington, D.C.-based radio station WASH-FM. She moved from NBC to CNN in 1987. She hosted Inside Politics in place of Judy Woodruff before the show was replaced with The Situation Room. On 31 January 2010 it was announced that Crowley would replace John King as the anchor of the Sunday-morning political talk show State of the Union, which she began hosting in February. She was featured twice in 2009 on the tenth anniversary edition of the popular game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? in as the expert for the "Ask the Expert" lifeline.

Personal life

Crowley is known to be off-camera friends with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• CNN bio
• Candy Crowley on Twitter
• Citizen Jane Politics interview
• Media Bistro interview