Nancy Cordes Biography
Nancy Cordes is an award winning journalist currently working as a CBS News chief White House correspondent based in Washington, D.C. She reports across all broadcasts and platforms, including the “CBS Evening News,” “CBS Mornings” and CBS News 24/7. Cordes joined CBS News in 2007 as Transportation and Consumer Safety correspondent.
Nancy Cordes Career
Cordes has received multiple awards for her reporting, including multiple Emmys, Edward R. Murrow awards, and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.
At the White House, she has covered some of the biggest stories out of Washington including the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and the 2023 debt ceiling crisis. In addition, Cordes has covered President Biden’s diplomatic travels around the world, including his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva. She also covered President Biden’s meetings with world leaders at NATO, G7, and G20 summits in Madrid, Cornwall, Warsaw, Vilnius, Rome and Brussels, and his meetings with Asian leaders in Tokyo and Seoul. In 2023, Cordes received an Emmy Award and an American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award for breaking news coverage on the “CBS Evening News” following the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Previously in her role as CBS News’ chief congressional correspondent, she led coverage from Capitol Hill as rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 and as Donald Trump became the first American president in history to be impeached twice. During her 12 years covering Congress, Cordes reported extensively on government shutdowns, COVID-19 relief legislation negotiations and five Supreme Court confirmations. Cordes further reported on the congressional investigation into Russian election interference, the 2017 tax cut bill; the battle over President Obama’s health care law, the rise of the Tea Party, and ongoing debates on immigration reform , gun control and many other policy matters.
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Moreover, Cordes has been a major contributor to CBS News’ election coverage since 2008. On election nights 2010, 2014, 2018, 2020 and 2022, she was part of the in-studio anchor team and led coverage of House and Senate races. In 2016, she was the lead CBS News correspondent covering Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid and co-hosted a primary debate in Iowa. In 2012, Cordes also covered President Obama’s bid for re-election.
Prior to joining CBS News, she was an ABC News correspondent based in New York for over two years. Cordes reported for all ABC News broadcasts and covered major news stories including Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq and the 2004 election. Before New York , she was a Washington-based correspondent for NewsOne, the affiliate news service of ABC News almost two years. Cordes was a reporter for WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C., for four years. During her time at WJLA-TV, she covered the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon, the 2000 presidential race, the Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks and peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia. Cordes began her career in journalism as a reporter for KHNL-TV in Honolulu in 1995.
She was born in Los Angeles, California but raised in Hawaii on the islands of Kauai and Oahu. Cordes is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and a Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. She also holds a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Nancy Cordes Age
Cordes was born Nancy Weiner in Los Angeles, California on 10 August, 1974 and is now 50 years old as of 2024.
Nancy Cordes Height
She stands at an average height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.68m) tall
Nancy Cordes Education
Cordes is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and a Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in 1995. She also holds a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Nancy Cordes Family
She was born in Los Angeles, California but raised in Hawaii on the islands of Kauai and Oahu. Her mother, Linda Weiner works as a pediatrician and her father, Robert Weiner, is a general surgeon and former medical director at Kauai Hospice.
Nancy Cordes Husband
Cordes tied the knot with her husband, Harald Cordes in 2006.
Nancy Cordes Children
She is a mother of two children, a daughter and son.
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