Cynthia McFadden Biography

Fast Facts

• Once served on the board of the International Women's Media Foundation
• Often contributes to the efforts of various non-profit organizations raising awareness for Crohn's disease, as she herself is a sufferer
• After graduating from Maine's Bowdoin College in 1978, she would later attend Columbia Law
• Joined ABC's "Primetime" in 1996 and would eventually earn a spot as anchor by 2004 alongside one-time hosts, Terry Moran and Martin Bashir
• Immediately after graduating from law school, she would serve as a producer for a series of seminars at Columbia that were also broadcast on PBS, thus her first work in television
• Joined Courtroom Television it's inaugural year in 1991 and would later leave in 1994 for ABC News, serving as the network's chief legal correspondent during the O․J․ Simpson trial
• She served as the executrix for longtime friend's Katharine Hepburn's estate following her death in 2003