Kathleen McCleery joined the PBS NewsHour as a producer with Jim Leher in 1995, and became Deputy Executive Director two years later. Her career as a broadcast journalist spans 30 years and includes extensive national credits.
Speaker Biography:
Kathleen McCleery joined the PBS NewsHour staff in November 1995 as a producer with Jim Lehrer. She assumed the program’s Deputy Executive Producer position in November 2005. Her career as a broadcast journalist spans 35 years and includes extensive national credits.
At NBC News from 1985 to 1987, Kathleen was a producer working with Roger Mudd and Connie Chung on two magazine programs. In the 1990s, she helped develop and produce the Challenge to America documentary series on PBS with Hedrick Smith. For over ten years at WETA-TV Kathleen worked with Martin Agronsky on Evening Edition and with Paul Duke on Washington Week in Review.
Her work has garnered numerous awards from film and broadcast associations, among them: Council on International Nontheatrical Events, the Columbus International Film Festival, the American Film and Video Association, the U.S. Film and Video Festival, the International Film and TV Festival of New York, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Kathleen graduated from Princeton University in 1975 with a degree in Art and Archaeology and a certificate in American Studies. While at Princeton, she was a producer and correspondent for the student-run commercial radio station and served as its first female news director.
Ms. McCleery is at home in Falls Church, Virginia but visits her family in Hilton Head as often as time permits.
