Candy Crowley

As a child, she was named as Candy Alt Crowley. She is currently working at the CNN as its chief political correspondent. When Candy was at the age of six, her family moved and settled at St. Louis, Missouri from Michigan.

As her family keeps moving from one place to another, Crowley didn’t get chance to stay at one place during her childhood. She attended Horace Greeley High School when she was a teen and from where she completed her schooling. She then went on to join the Principia College located in Elsah, Illinois where she studied for two years. Later, she attended Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and she got graduated from there with a Bachelor Degree of Arts.

At the beginning of her career, she started as a newsroom assistant with a radio station WASH-FM which is based in Washington D.C. she also worked as an anchor for the Mutual Broadcasting and White House Correspondent for Associated Press. In the year 1987, Candy joined the CNN. Thee, she replaced Judy Woodruff and began to host the Inside Politics until the show got replaced with The Situation Room. She then began to anchor the “State of the Union” from February of 2010. It is the Sunday Morning Political Talk Show.

Crowley is among the few journalists in American TV who has won the numbers of Awards and honors in her career such as Joan Shorenstein Award in 1997 and 2005, Dirksen Award from National Press Foundation in 1998, Broadcaster’s Award through the Associated Press in 2003, Emmy Award in 2003, Gracie Allen Award in 2004, and the Edward R. Murrow Award in 2005.

Prior to that, Crowley had also served as moderator of second Presidential Election Debate between the President Barack Obama and his Republican opponent Mitt Romney. 

Candy Crowley is a married woman but she has already got separated from her then husband. She is now living a single life. Candy is the proud mother of her two children, both sons. Among them, the elder one is a neurosurgeon and the younger one is a musician. She is now at the age of 66 and she has become the inspiration for many people. She has got a huge reputation in the television industry. 

It was announced by CNN on 5th December 2014 that Candy had taken a decision of leaving the Network after working for twenty-seven years on the air. Her total net worth is around $3 million dollars.

She is a vegetarian and she also practices the Transcendental Meditation. She once gained a lot of weight and she follows called her fat. But now, she had loose her weight and she gives the credit to meditation which helped her to lose the access weight. Crowley is also an avid user of social networking sites and if you are a fan of her then, we can follow her on her Facebook and Twitter account.