Judy Hsu Biography
Judy Hsu is a Taiwanese Emmy-Award-Winning Anchor/Reporter working for ABC 7 News as an evening anchor anchoring the 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts where she joined the station in April of 2001. Prior to ABC 7, she was working as a 4 p.m. weekday news anchor for KFMB-TV located in San Diego, California where she also previously served as the station’s weekend anchor and general assignment reporter.
Judy Hsu Date of Birth / Birthday
Hsu prefers to keep her age and birthdate away from social media. However, we will update this information once it’s available.
Judy Hsu Measurements/Height
She stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 4 inches.
Judy Hsu Partner/ Husband
She is married to her loving husband, Tracey, who together resides in the western suburbs of Chicago. The duo met while she was working at KFMB-TV located in San Diego. The duo celebrated its 20th anniversary on the 26th of October 2017 as evidenced by a post she made on her Instagram account.
Judy Hsu Kids/Children
Together, the couple counts it a blessing to be happy parents to their lovely two boys and two girls. However, she prefers to keep information regarding her children away from the public but frequently posts them on his Instagram account.
In relation to kids, while on maternity leave, Hsu brought breaking news stories to the people of Chicago. She became a leading subject for the expressway baby story when she gave birth to her fourth-born child while on Chicago’s Eisenhower Expressway.
Judy Hsu Relatives/ Family
Hsu was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and brought up in Chicago. She and her family moved to Chicago when she was around 11 years old. His father happens to have been a well-known Tai Chi master. However, she manages to keep more information regarding her parents away from the limelight.
Judy Hsu Schooling/Education
Her roots in the Wind City take her all the way back to her elementary school. She is a proud graduate of the University of Illinois located in Urbana-Champaign where she was able to obtain her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Broadcast Journalism. This was before she began her broadcasting career at the campus radio station WPGU-FM.
To date, she embodies the spirit of the American Dream success story. This is even as she moved from living in Chicago’s Chinatown to Rogers Park to Morton Grove before later attending the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. All this was before she then later landed an on-air reporting job the day after graduation.
Judy Hsu Profession
She joins the ABC 7 News team after 15 years of experience waking up with the Chicago natives. She also works as a host for the station where she hosts a long-format interview segment that airs on Sunday mornings. This segment is titled “Newsviews” and offers unique perspectives from the Chicago area newsmakers even as they address the local and national topics that are pertinent to the community.
She also serves as the primary host for ABC7’s signature half-hour program known as Asian Influences. This is a program that highlights extraordinary contributions by Chicagoans of Asian-Pacific American descent while at the same time examining issues impacting the community.
She was happy to return home in the year 2001 in order to join the ABC 7 team as a weekday anchor where he was anchoring the morning 4:30-7 AM block of news programming. In addition, she helped the morning show for about 15 years prior to getting her promotion to the afternoon and early evening newscasts.
During her time on ABC 7, she has been a part of almost every major story in Chicago where she is found reporting in the neighborhoods or anchoring from the newsdesk. Additionally, she has had the privilege to report live from the White House where she was bringing the ABC 7 team extensive coverage of her one-on-one interview with former US president, Barack Obama. This was just prior to his living in the Oval Office. In addition, being a rookie reporter in California, she was able to cover the O.J. Simpson verdict from the Los Angeles courthouse. Additionally, she was among the youngest reporters to fly with the Blue Angels.
She is fluent in the Mandarin language and brings to Chicago News a global perspective. Having ad an internship experience with the legendary Chicago Anchor, Walter Jacobson, she was able to land her first job with WCIA in Champaign. Her passion nowadays is speaking to schoolchildren, especially about the importance of pursuing their dreams.
Judy Hsu Income
Hsu earns an annual salary approximating between $30,000 – $90,000.
Judy Hsu Net Worth
Through Hsu’s career as an Anchor/Reporter, she has been able to accumulate a net worth that ranges between $ 1 million and $1.5 million.
Judy Hsu Awards and Charities
Through his on-air work, she has been able to gain several Emmy Awards which include covering breaking news and for her work on ABC 7 programming specials for the Asian Influences and the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival. She has received nearly two dozen Emmy nominations which include “Outstanding Performance” as a news anchor.
Since her return to Chicago, she has worked alongside dozens of charities throughout the region in order to highlight issues that are important to local families. She is the chairperson of the Advisory Board for Chicago’s Chinese American Service League. In addition, she has been a voice for the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women movement and the American Cancer Society’s annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk. She also feels honored to have joined the Community Memorial Foundation’s Regional Health and Human Services Advisory Council. This charity is located in the western suburbs and was named a Woman of Distinction in the year 2017.
Judy Hsu Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Hsu is active on her social media accounts. She has about 39,000 followers on her Facebook Page, about 12,355 on her Twitter account, and around 6,500 followers on her Instagram account.