11 Facts About Ann Compton

Ann Compton was born on January 19,1947 and is an American former news reporter and White House correspondent for ABC News Radio.

Ann Compton graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, in 1965.

Ann Compton began her broadcasting career in Virginia, where an internship during her junior year at Hollins College led to a full-time job as the first woman reporting for WDBJ TV, a CBS affiliate in Roanoke.

Ann Compton established a State Capitol Bureau in Richmond for the station.

Weeks after the Watergate scandal came to an end, Ann Compton became the first woman assigned to cover the White House on a full-time basis by a network television news organization, and she was one of the youngest to receive the assignment.

In 2000, Ann Compton was the chief Washington correspondent for ABCNEWS.

Ann Compton retired from ABC News on September 10,2014,41 years to the day after she began at the network.

In 2013, Ann Compton was named one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History".

Ann Compton has served as chairwoman of the governing board of the Radio and Television Correspondents Association and has served on the advisory board of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center.

Ann Compton is a former president of the White House Correspondents' Association.

Ann Compton is married to Dr William Hughes, a Washington, DC physician specializing in gastroenterology.