Judy Woodruff of the Newshour to Keynote National Nonprofit Conference

Community Options, a national nonprofit organization that develops homes and employment supports for people with disabilities will be hosting its 5th Annual National Conference on September 27-29th of 2010 at The W Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

The organization is announcing that Judy Woodruff has committed to delivering the opening keynote on the morning of September 27, 2010 at 9:30am at the hotel.

Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff has covered politics and other news for more than three decades at CNN, NBC and PBS. Most recently, she signed on as a senior correspondent for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

For 12 years, Woodruff served as anchor and senior correspondent for CNN, anchoring the weekday political program, "Inside Politics." Woodruff also played a central role in the network's political coverage and other major news stories. In addition, she anchors a monthly program for Bloomberg Television, “Conversations with Judy Woodruff.” Through fall 2006, Judy was a visiting professor at Duke University’s Terry Sanford Institute of
Public Policy, teaching a weekly seminar course on media and politics.

In the fall of 2005, she was a visiting fellow at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, where she led a study group for students on contemporary issues in journalism.

At NBC News, Woodruff served as White House correspondent from 1977 to 1982. For one year after that she served as NBC's Today Show chief Washington correspondent. She wrote the book, This is Judy Woodruff at the White House, published in 1982 by ddison-

Wesley. Woodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women's Media Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging women in communication industries worldwide. She serves on the boards of trustee of the Freedom Forum, the Newseum, and Global Rights: Partners for Justice. She also serves as a member of The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and the board of the National Museum of American History. Woodruff is a graduate of Duke University, where she is a trustee emerita.

For more information about Community Options, please visit www.comop.org. For more information about their 5th Annual Conference, please contact 609.951.9900.