Kate Bolduan

Background and Age

Kate Bolduan spent her childhood in the Goshen area of Indiana. Her father was a surgeon and her mother, Nadine was a nurse. She grew up with three siblings. She showed an interest in dancing and sports as a young girl. Her love for both dancing and athletics led to her becoming a cheerleader. She won the Junior Miss 2000 title in Goshen when she sang show tunes in the talent search part of the competition. She was a high school salutatorian.

Kate graduated from George Washington University in 2005 with a degree in Journalism. She also participated in stage acting and volleyball during her college years.

Marriage, Husband, and Kids

Bolduan is married to Michael David Gershenson. Bolduan converted to Judaism before her marriage to Michael. When Bolduan got pregnant, her fellow female CNN staffers got upset after the network permanently replaced her while she was on maternity leave. Alisyn Camerota was only supposed to be temporarily filling in for Bolduan’s role alongside Chris Cuomo and Michaela Pereira. While the world was witnessing the terrorist attack in France, CNN announced that Bolduan would be replaced by Ms. Camerota permanently.

CNN defended their decision with research that showed New Day had ratings boost with Camerota. CNN also felt Bolduan lacked chemistry with her co-anchors. Still, many of the female staffers felt CNN should have waited until Bolduan returned from maternity leave before making any changes. They felt it was disrespectful to females to make that sort of a decision while a new mom is trying to ease into a new life.

Career and Net Worth

Kate Bolduan began her career in television journalism when she started as a production assistant at NBC News and MSNBC. She later served as a general assignment reporter for WTVD-TV which was located in Raleigh.

Kate started her career at CNN in 2007. She was 24 years old when she was made the national correspondent for CNN Newsource. She provided breaking news reports and other feature stories for over 800 CNN Newsource affiliates. She was later made congressional correspondent and the co-anchor of the show The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Kate Bolduan was also the anchor of State of the Race, a US politics-based show on CNN International broadcasting.

Bolduan had fun covering intense political races. Her crew engaged international audiences by offering the latest news on the campaign and giving them the inside picture of what went on inside the campaigns and what the voters were thinking.

Bolduan has covered all the major news events ranging from the second trial of O.J. Simpson to the negotiations involving the national debt. Her anchoring job with Wolf Blitzer has further enhanced her talent and given her valuable experience. Her mentor at WRC Pat Collins praises Bolduan and says that she is highly talented and deserves her present position and success.