ABCNEWS' Judy Muller

— -- Judy Muller is an ABCNEWS correspondent based in Los Angeles. She reports for World News Tonight With Peter Jennings, Nightline, 20/20 and other ABCNEWS broadcasts.

Since she joined ABCNEWS in 1990, she has covered such stories as the trial of Rodney King and the subsequent riots in Los Angeles in 1992, the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake and the O.J. Simpson case.

Prior to joining ABCNEWS, Muller spent nine years as a correspondent for CBS News, where she was a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and CBS Weekend News. For CBS News Radio, she anchored First Line Report, Correspondent's Notebook, and was a summer anchor for The Osgood File. Muller also anchored hourly newscasts and covered the space shuttle program, both national and political conventions in 1988 and the 1988 Bush presidential campaign.

Muller was previously an anchor/reporter for KHOW-AM in Denver (1979-1981) and WHWH-WPST in Princeton, N.J. (1977-1979). She began her career in journalism as a reporter for The Colonial News in Freehold, N.J., and Today in Parlin, N.J. From 1970 to 1973, Muller was a high school English teacher in Metuchen, N.J.

A 1969 graduate of Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Muller has received several journalism honors, including a Colorado Sigma Delta Chi Award (1981), an American Bar Association Award (1980), and a New Jersey Broadcasters Association Award (1979). She was a part of the Weekend News team honored with the Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage of the impeachment of the president and the Nightline team that received a duPont-Columbia Award and an Emmy Award for coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and for the O.J. Simpson case.

Muller is a regular commentator on the National Public Radio program, Morning Edition. She is also the author of NOW THIS — Radio, Television and the Real World (Putnam).