Cokie Roberts

Cokie Roberts
Roberts at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2017
Born	Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs (1943-12-27) December 27, 1943 (age 73) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Residence	Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	Wellesley College
Occupation	Journalist, Author
Employer	NPR, ABC, PBS
Known for	Journalist, author, pundit, television
Title	Contributing Senior News Analyst
Spouse(s)	Steven V. Roberts (m. 1966)
Children	Rebecca Roberts Lee Roberts
Parent(s)	Hale Boggs Lindy Boggs
Relatives	Barbara Boggs Sigmund (Sister) Tommy Boggs (Brother, deceased) Daniel J. Hartman (son-in-law) Paul Sigmund (brother-in-law) Paul Sigmund, Jr. (nephew) David Sigmund (nephew) Stephen Sigmund (nephew) six grandchildren William Robertson Boggs (Brother, deceased) William C. C. Claiborne (ancestor) DeLesseps Story Morrison (second cousin, once removed)

Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts (née Boggs; born December 27, 1943), best known as Cokie Roberts, is an American journalist and author. She is a reporter on contract to National Public Radio as well as a regular roundtable analyst for the current This Week With George Stephanopoulos. Roberts also works as a commentator for ABC News, serving as an on-air analyst for the network.

Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated by United Media in newspapers around the United States. She serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations such as the Kaiser Family Foundation and was appointed by President George W. Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation.

Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs was born on December 27, 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received the sobriquet "Cokie" from her brother Tommy who, as a child, could not pronounce her given name, Corinne. Cokie Roberts is the third child and youngest daughter of ambassador and long-time Democratic Congresswoman from Louisiana Lindy Boggs and of Hale Boggs, also a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana. He was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and a member of the Warren Commission. He was lost on a plane which disappeared over Alaska on October 16, 1972. Her late sister, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and a candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Her late brother Tommy Boggs was a prominent Washington, D.C. attorney and lobbyist.