Personal Life
Woodruff was born on August 18, 1961, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, to Robert N. Woodruff, Jr., and Fran Woodruff. He married Lee McConaughy in 1988 and they have four children.
Woodruff graduated from the private Cranbrook Kingswood school in 1979. He earned a B.A in 1983 from Colgate University, where he also played lacrosse — finishing his career with 184 points, second all-time at Colgate. Woodruff earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1987. He is an alumnus of Theta Chi Fraternity. He is fluent in German and Mandarin.
After graduating from law school, Woodruff worked as a bankruptcy associate at Shearman & Sterling. In 1989, while he was teaching law in Beijing, CBS News hired him as an on-screen interpreter during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Shortly thereafter, he left law practice and became a full-time correspondent, initially working for several local stations, then moving to ABC News in 1996.
Bob Woodruff is not related to journalist Judy Woodruff.
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