Al Hunt is well known as the husband of Judy Woodruff.
Hunt married Judy Woodruff of PBS in 1980. Together they have three children, including a son born with spina bifida.
Albert Reinold Hunt Jr. is an American journalist, formerly a columnist for Bloomberg View, the editorial arm of Bloomberg News.
Hunt hosted the Sunday morning talk show Political Capital on Bloomberg Television and was also a weekly panelist on CNN’s Capital Gang and Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields.
He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. Hunt graduated from The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, in 1960. He attended Wake Forest University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1965 and worked for the Old Gold & Black.
Before graduating, Hunt worked for the Philadelphia Bulletin and the Winston-Salem Journal.
Hunt is a member of Wake Forest University’s board of trustees and the board of the Children’s Charities in Washington and has been an advisory board member of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.
He teaches a course on the press and politics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communications. On June 18, 2008, Hunt was one of 10 people chosen to remember journalist Tim Russert, who had died days before, at his memorial service at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.