Candy Crowley

Candy Crowley
Crowley in February 2008, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas
Born	Candy Alt Crowley (1948-12-26) December 26, 1948 (age 68) Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.
Education	K-12 The Principia School Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Occupation	Broadcast journalist, anchor
Notable credit(s)	Inside Politics Anchor of State of the Union
Title	Chief political correspondent

K-12 The Principia School

Candy Alt Crowley (born December 26, 1948) is an American news anchor who was employed as CNN's chief political correspondent, specializing in USA national and state elections. She was based in CNN's Washington bureau and was the anchor of their Sunday morning talk show State of the Union. She has covered elections for over two decades.

Crowley was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where her family had moved briefly from St. Louis, Missouri. Her family moved back to St. Louis when she was a toddler and she grew up in the St. Louis County suburb of Creve Coeur, Missouri. She attended kindergarten through high school at The Principia School in St. Louis County where she graduated in 1966. After high school she attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

Crowley started her career as a newsroom assistant with the Washington, D.C.-based radio station WASH‑FM. She was an anchor for Mutual Broadcasting and the White House correspondent for the Associated Press. 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. In February 2010, Crowley succeeded John King as an anchor of the Sunday morning political talk show State of the Union.