Bob Woodruff
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Bob Woodruff in February, 2015
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| Born |
Robert Warren Woodruff August 18, 1961 Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, U.S. |
| Education |
Colgate University University of Michigan (J.D.) |
| Occupation | Television journalist |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Notable credit(s) |
ABC World News co-anchor (2006) ABC News reporter (1996–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Lee McConaughy |
| Website |
Official ABC biography Bob Woodruff Foundation |
Robert "Bob" Warren Woodruff (born August 18, 1961) is an American television journalist.
Woodruff was born on 18 August 1961, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, the son of Frances Ann (Dawson) and Robert Norman Woodruff Jr., real estate agents.
Woodruff married Lee McConaughy in 1988, and they have four children.
Woodruff is distantly related to journalist Judy Woodruff.
Woodruff graduated from the private Cranbrook Kingswood school in Bloomfield Hills, MI, in 1979. He earned a B.A. in 1983 from Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, where he played lacrosse—finishing his career with 184 points, second all-time at Colgate. Woodruff earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1987, and he is an alumnus of Theta Chi Fraternity.
After graduating from law school, Woodruff worked as a Bankruptcy Associate at Shearman & Sterling, LLC., in New York City. In 1989, while Woodruff was teaching law in Beijing, China, CBS News hired him as an on-screen interpreter during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Shortly thereafter, he left the law practice and became a full-time correspondent, initially working for several local stations.
Woodruff began working for ABC News in 1996. He succeeded Peter Jennings as a co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight in December 2005. In January 2006, Woodruff was critically wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
On 29 January 2006, Woodruff and Canadian cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured in an explosion from an improvised explosive device near Taji, Iraq, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Baghdad. Woodruff had traveled with an ABC News team to Israel to report on the aftermath of the 2006 Palestinian elections, and then via Amman to Baghdad, so that he could meet with troops before President George W. Bush's State of the Union address for 2006.
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