Born: 29-Sep-1955
Birthplace: Queens, NY

Gender: Female
Religion: African Methodist Episcopal
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Journalist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Washington Week, Lehrer News Hour

"How can I say this so I don't turn off every man in Washington?" she asks. "I don't know why I'm not married. I just know I will be, so I don't sweat it."

Season ticketholder to the WNBA Washington Mystics (as of 2000).

Father: O. Urcille Ifill, Sr. (d. 1991, Methodist preacher)
Mother: Eleanor (d. 1994, cancer)
Sister: Maria Ifill Philip
Brother: Roberto Ifill

    University: BA Communications, Simmons College, Boston, MA (1977)

    The New York Times White House correspondent 1991-94
    The Washington Post 1984-91
    The Baltimore Evening Sun 1981-84
    The Boston Herald American Food columnist 1977-80
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2006
    Committee to Protect Journalists Board of Directors
    Barbados Ancestry Maternal side
    Panamanian Ancestry Paternal side

    TELEVISION
    Today Correspondent
    NBC Chief Congressional and political correspondent, joined NBC 26-Sep-1994
    Washington Week in Review Became moderator, Oct-1999
    Lehrer News Hour

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