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
Title	Chief Political Correspondent and Anchor
Notable credit(s)	Inside Politics Anchor of State of the Union
CNN Bio Official website

Candy Alt Crowley (born December 26, 1948) is a CNN anchor and Chief Political Correspondent, specializing in U.S. presidential, gubernatorial, and Senate elections. She is based in CNN's Washington bureau, and hosted Inside Politics in place of Judy Woodruff before the show was replaced with The Situation Room. Crowley has covered elections for over two decades. On January 31, 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.

Crowley was born in Michigan. She attended Principia College in Illinois and received her undergraduate degree from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, majoring in English. Crowley started her career with radio station WASH-FM in Washington, D.C. as a newsroom assistant. She moved from NBC to CNN in 1987. Crowley is known to be off-camera friends with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.^{[citation needed]} Crowley was featured twice on the 10th anniversary edition of the popular game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? in 2009 as the expert for the "Ask the Expert" lifeline.

References

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5510665.ece

External links

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