- Born
- Birth nameKathleen Ann Cunningham
- A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Kathleen Matthews is an award-winning producer, reporter and news anchor who covered news in the nation's capital for 25 years. She was the anchor of WJLA's News 7 at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. She also hosted Capital Sunday, a half-hour talk show focusing on current events in the nation's capital. For five years she was host and executive editor of "Working Woman," a nationally syndicated magazine talk show broadcast in 75 markets. "Working Woman" continues as a regular segment on the 5 p.m. news with timely, career-focused news about women. An honors graduate from Stanford University in 1975, Matthews has been awarded nine local Emmys. Her further credits include the prestigious Associated Press Awards, George Foster Peabody, Scrips-Howard, Ohio State and Gracie Allen award from the American Women in Radio and Television. She was named a 2002 Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian Magazine; also in 2002, she was named a "Woman Who Means Business" by the Washington Business Journal.
Matthews is married to Chris Matthews, a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist and host of Hardball with Chris Matthews (1994) on MSNBC. They have three children, Michael, Thomas, and Caroline. She is active in her children's schools, her church, and Catholic Charities. Matthews also serves on the Boards of several charitable organizations, including The Black Student Fund, Support Our Aging Religious (SOAR), Girl Scouts, Best Friends Foundation and Suited for Change, which provides clothing for women moving from welfare to work.
- IMDb mini biography by: wjla.com
- SpouseChris Matthews(June 21, 1980 - present) (3 children)
- Appeared with her husband Chris Matthews on his show, Hardball with Chris Matthews (1994) on October 1, 2013, "turning the tables," as she has in previous years during the Christmas-New Years period, allowing her to interview him, not as in the past about the previous year in politics, but this time for her to interview him about his new book, "Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked," and comparing relations between the President (Reagan) and the Speaker (Tip O'Neill) in his book, to the present situation and government shut down between Barack Obama and John Boehner. As he has many times, Matthews managed to refer to his wife as "The Queen" in the last sentence before the end of the segment.
- While still employed as news anchor with WJLA-TV in 2004, she was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics at Harvard University.
- Graduated in 1975 from Stanford University.
- Holder of honorary doctorates from the University of South Carolina and Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.
- She has served on the boards of directors of the U.S. Travel Association; Catholic Charities; the Black Student Fund; Suited for Change; Historic Ford's Theatre; Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC; the Nantucket Film Festival; and Nantucket Dreamland Theater.
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