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Claudia Coffey is the Executive Director of a Louisville based non-profit. She was named to the position of Executive Director of the Louisville Apartment Association in December of 2014. The Emmy Award winning American broadcast journalist has deep roots in Louisville's non-profit and charitable community. Coffey has an established career of raising the profile of associations and groups through media across multiple traditional and social media platforms.

Broadcast News Career
Most recently Coffey was an anchor with WHAS TV in Louisville, KY. Coffey joined WHAS 11 in April 2010 from WTTG TV the Fox owned and operated station in Washington,DC where she was a fill-in news anchor and reporter. While at the Washington, DC station, Coffey won a regional Emmy Award for her coverage of the Alleged White House Party Crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi. Following her Emmy win, Coffey was also featured in the Diane Dimond book on the infamous couple called Cirque Du Salahi. During her tenure at WTTG, Coffey covered the election and inauguration of President Barack Obama and Pope Benedict’s historic visit to the United States. Her stories often appeared on Fox News Channel and Coffey has filled in as a substitute correspondent in the DC Bureau as well as the live reporter for the Fox affiliate groups across the US. Also while in Washington, DC, Coffey worked as a freelance correspondent for CBS Newspath covering several major national and international news stories, including the nomination of Chief Justice John Roberts, President George W. Bush's 2006 State of the Union address, the War in Iraq and the congressional hearings on the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. Before moving to Washington, DC, Coffey had been the 4:30 p.m. anchor and 10 p.m. reporter for WTMJ TV, the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. While there, she extensively covered the 2004 Presidential Election. She interviewed Howard Dean, John Kerry and John Edwards as they crossed the hotly contested battleground state. She has also spent time as a reporter for WVUE TV, the Fox affiliate, in New Orleans, Louisianaand was the 6 p.m. anchor for NBC station KARK TV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Coffey’s TV career began with ABC affiliate WABG TV in Greenville, Mississippi as the host of Good Morning Mississippi.

Entertainment Experience
Coffey has also sat down with the country’s most prominent celebrities including pop star Britney Spears, Actor Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Airplane writers David and Jerry Zucker as well as Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.

Coffey has not only interviewed big names in entertainment she’s also found herself right in the middle of the entertainment world. As the co-host of The Travel Channel's coverage of Mardi Gras, Coffey and former "Night Court" star Harry Anderson brought the sights and sounds of America’s wildest party to an international audience during a live three hour broadcast.

Movie Roles
Coffey appeared as a news reporter in the 2003 movie "Runaway Jury” starring Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman. Coffey can be soon be seen as a reporter in the upcoming movie “ Shadow People” starring Clint Eastwood’s daughter, Allison Eastwood.

Education
Claudia Coffey graduated with honors from Assumption High School in Louisville, Kentucky. She earned her B.A from Indiana University with a double major in Political Science and Journalism. She graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University where she earned her Master’s in International Relations.

Personal
Coffey is a divorced mother of one son, Jack. Coffey shared her story of Jack’s heart condition on widely acclaimed news special airing in the Louisville, Kentucky market. Reaction to the story of teen athletes and undiagnosed heart conditions and the need for AEDs in all schools led Coffey to launch a website www.claudiacoffeyheartproject.org. The site is intended to raise awareness of childhood heart conditions and tracks the positive efforts that Coffey and her son are making in the Louisville community.

Awards
In July 2010, Louisville Magazine named Coffey the “Critic’s Choice “ for Best Weekend TV Anchor. In August 2011, the reader’s of The Voice Tribune honored Coffey with the award for “Best Dressed of Louisville” at the newspaper’s annual event. In September 2011, Coffey appeared on the cover of Today’s Woman magazine detailing her journey in television news, the passion she has for her hometown and the thrill of being a mother.