Education Born in
Lewiston, Maine, McFadden graduated
Phi Beta Kappa and
summa cum laude from
Bowdoin College in
Brunswick, Maine, in 1978. She then joined the
Courtroom Television Network as an anchor and producer in 1991, its inaugural year. As anchor, McFadden conducted a number of significant interviews including ones with celebrities such as
Clint Eastwood,
Paul McCartney and
Judge Judy Sheindlin, past and present world leaders such as
Pervez Musharraf and
Tony Blair, and five with
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Move from ABC to NBC On March 29, 2014, after two decades with ABC News, with the last nine years as a
Nightline anchor, McFadden left and joined
NBC News.
Personal life McFadden married Michael John Davies, editor and publisher of the
Hartford Courant, on September 9, 1989; they were divorced in 1996. She has a son with
Foreign Affairs editor
James Hoge, Spencer Graham McFadden Hoge, who was born in 1998 and named after the actor
Spencer Tracy. McFadden practices
Transcendental Meditation and has supported the work of the
David Lynch Foundation. In October 2020,
Town and Country magazine published an account McFadden and her son Spencer wrote about their road trip from New York City to California, where he was a student. The account described the accommodations they had to take due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. Spencer, having grown up in New York City, had not learned to drive, until he moved to California. McFadden encouraged him to earn a
driver's license by promising him a new car. ==Awards==