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My induction into the 2011 Tucson High Badger Foundation Hall of Fame, was one of my proudest moments. My portrait now hangs in "Ole Main", (the one above in the red). After graduation I attended the University of Arizona and graduated with a double major in Political Science and Journalism. I worked as a summer intern on The Washington Post and started my professional career as a reporter for KVOA-TV, Channel 4 in Tucson. I was "discovered" by a former employee of the company which owned Dallas-Ft. Worth television station WFAA. After declining their first offer, a year later I accepted a more lucrative offer and spent the next 13 years working to become the "most popular" and highest paid news anchor in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. I was the first woman and the first African-American to anchor a newscast in Texas and one of the first in the country. My highly successful broadcasting career ended when I resigned and was diagnosed as partially, permanently disabled following an automobile accident. I went through a rough period before returning to work for a TV station in St. Louis, then a radio and TV station in Dallas-Ft. Worth. When finances allowed, I took early retirement in 2009 and returned to live in Tucson. I have had a number of health challanges and narrowly avoided death in 2011. After a lengthy recovery period following major back surgery, I had grown tired of retirement. Then as luck would have, a Dallas-Ft. Worth television station sought me out and lurred me back to Texas. I still had my home in North Texas, so it was an easy transitition back to the Dallas area. I continue working parttime as a television news pundit and love every minute of it!