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Brenda Buttner was born on May 22nd, 1961 in Santa Cruz County, California, and she passed away on February 20th, 2017 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Brenda Buttner was of different ancestries: she was of Irish descent from her maternal side, and Portuguese from her paternal family line. Since her early childhood, Brenda was showing interest in on-the-screen reportages and journalism. She used to watch television at her family home for hours, and be inspired to become a television journalist and on-the-screen reporter. Brenda Buttner has been particularly inspired to start her career in the news and Television after watching personalities like <a href="/biography/scott-pelley">Scott Pelley</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Stahl">Lesley Stahl</a>, <a href="/biography/bob-schieffer">Bob Schieffer</a>, <a href="/biography/charles-osgood">Charles Osgood</a>, <a href="/biography/ann-curry-biography">Ann Curry</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wallace">Mike Wallace</a>. Her biggest idol from the Television was <a href="/biography/diane-sawyer">Diane Sawyer</a>, and Brenda’s biggest desire was to become as good and as famous as <a href="/biography/diane-sawyer">Diane</a> was.

Brenda Buttner has been a celebrity on-the-screen reporter and television show host. Brenda Buttner was raised in Watsonville, California. Brenda Buttner had one male sibling, whose name is Phil Buttner, that’s not famous as his sister Brenda was. Besides loving journalism and news anchoring, Brenda was an avid fan of motorcycles from her early childhood. Brenda especially loved riding cross-country motorcycles. Her love for motorcycles brought her to become the first chief editor woman of a major motorcycle magazine, “Cycle World”. Brenda was also known as Brenda Adkins Buttner, and she was the mom of the young actress Rebecca Adkins, and of Rachel Adkins.

Brenda Buttner was a well-educated woman. She first attended a private elementary school in Watsonville, California. After completing her primary education, Brenda Buttner also attended a high school in Watsonville. Once she completed her high school education, Brenda enrolled in the prestigious Harvard University, from where she graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor's degree (B.A) in Social Studies. After completing her education at the well-known Harvard University, Brenda Buttner spent two more years as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Scholarship">Rhodes Scholar</a> at Balliol College, a part of the University of Oxford, in England. She graduated magna cum laude from the Balliol College with a degree in politics and economics.

Brenda Buttner started her career after completing her college education. She became a reporter for KCRL-TV, located in Reno, Nevada. At that time, she also became the first woman in the world to become a chief editor of the motorcycle magazine Cycle World. She was also the reporter-on-the-spot for television show produced by CNBC “The Money Club”, and she served as a Washington correspondent from 1990 to 1993 and general correspondent from 1995 to 1998 for the cable outlet. She then worked on The Fox News Channel as a senior business correspondent, and as the host on weekdays of the television show “Bulls & Bears”. She also frequently contributed to “Your World with Neil Cavuto”. Her education and talent for journalism acquired her an estimated net worth of $3 million (she didn’t like to flaunt her possessions, and she never revealed her actual net worth).

Brenda Buttner did speak in 1997 about the female investing attribute when she was the host of the television show The Money Club on CNBC network on weekdays. She said:

"Women are not afraid to simply admit they don't know about something, which men rarely do, so women realize there is no such thing as a stupid question when it comes to understanding an investment."

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Brenda Buttner received numerous awards for her work, among which we can mention a “Cable Ace” award in 1996 for best business programming (“The Money Club”) and a “National Clarion” award in 1990 for the best news story. In addition, many of her personal finance articles have been published in popular publications such as “The New York Times” and “Ladies' Home Journal”.

Brenda Buttner was married to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Adkins">Tom Adkins</a>, an American political pundit and a real estate investor, from 2005 and for five years until their divorce in 2010. The couple had two children - Rebecca and Rachel Adkins. The Buttner-Adkins family also had two dogs, Cissy and Buddy. Although the couple was divorced, they both played an equal role raising the two daughters together, fulfilling their needs with the mutual understanding. Due to the lack of information about their lives, and the reason behind their split. we cannot find the exact fact but it is said by the sources that they parted ways saying ‘irreconcilable differences’.

After her divorce, she didn’t get involved with anyone else, but she focused on raising her daughters, and going forward in the career.

Brenda Buttner was diagnosed with a rare type of breast cancer in 2015. She underwent chemotherapy for a while, which caused her to lose weight. However, her sense of humor was still intact and she used to quip, “I wanted to lose a few pounds…well man this chemo diet works!” Unfortunately, she lost the battle against the sickness in 2017, while she was under treatment in the hospital.

<a href="/biography/neil-cavuto">Neil Cavuto</a>, the other <a href="/biography/neil-cavuto">host</a> of "Your World," paid tribute to Brenda Buttner on his show with these words:

"I have some very sad news to share with you today: Our Brenda Buttner has passed away," he revealed. "Now, many of you know her as the unflappable host of 'Bulls and Bears,' but she was much more. Allow me now to tell you how much more. She was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Scholarship">Rhodes Scholar</a>, but she'd never mention it," he explained. "Near the top of her Harvard class, but she would never ever say it. [...] All that smarts stuff is in her files, but the more important things filled her heart. It's what separated her from everyone else in this business. Not just dollars, you see, Brenda had depth. Let it be known that Brenda Buttner made us want to watch a business show with heart. Her heart, her spirit,” <a href="/biography/neil-cavuto">Cavuto</a> said. “She democratized dollars and just made sense.”

<a href="/biography/neil-cavuto">Cavuto</a> went on to explain that Buttner had a passion for motorcycles, animals and her two daughters. At one point, she put her career in journalism on hold to edit a motorcycle magazine.

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