Adrianne Baughns-Wallace Biography
Adrianne Baughns-Wallace is a Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame inductee and the first African-American television anchor in New England. Wallace began working in television in 1973 in Albany, New York.
Adrianne Baughns-Wallace Age
She is 79 years old as of 2023. Adrianne was born in 1944 in the Bronx, New York, United States of America.
Adrianne Baughns-Wallace Education
Wallace was born in New York City and raised in the Bronx. She attended St. Colombo School, Washington Irving School, and the State University of New York at Albany, where she majored in communications. Prior to working as a broadcast journalist,
Adrianne Baughns-Wallace Husband
Baughns-Wallace has a son from her first marriage and is divorced. Her second husband was Lenzy Wallace, a diversity and change manager at ITT Hartford, who died in 2021.
Adrianne Baughns-Wallace Career
She worked for a telephone company, a car dealership, and an airline. She was also an Air Force pharmacy specialist. Wallace began working in television in 1973 in Albany, New York. She left WAST in Albany in August 1974 to join WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut. Her first job at WFSB was writing and presenting the 7:30 a.m. News Sign, as well as co-anchoring the noon Eyewitness News broadcast. In October 1978, Baughns was named co-anchor of WFSB’s 6 p.m. Eyewitness News broadcast, becoming Connecticut’s first female evening news anchor. She left WSFB in June 1982 to start her own television production company.
After leaving WFSB, Baughns-Wallace worked as an independent TV producer and hosted Essence, a program for black women that aired on WPIX in New York City. Baughns-Wallace joined the staff of WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1983, to assist in the launch of Newscope, a program that combined local stories with nationally syndicated material. Baughns-Wallace became the director of Operation Fuel (OF), a nonprofit private institution, in the late 1980s. OF, a program of the Christian Conference of Connecticut, provides funds (via a Connecticut Light & Power Company checkoff program) to assist the poor, elderly, and disabled in paying their utility bills. According to a 1996 Hartford Courant Sunday magazine article, ” she’s found her mission and purpose in life…” In 2001, Baughns-Wallace was director of financial education for the Connecticut treasurer’s office. Her job entailed teaching the citizens of Connecticut about responsible financial planning.
Adrianne Baughns-Wallace Awards
Baughns-Wallace was inducted into the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame in 2000, “an honor given to those who have broken down barriers for women in a job, doing most of their work while in Connecticut.” She was the first African-American TV anchor in New England and the first female TV anchor in Connecticut. She also received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Council of Negro Women.
Adrianne Baughns-Wallace Net Worth
Wallace has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.