Sandra sobieraj westfall biography

Sandra Sobieraj Westfall was a six-year White House correspondent for The Associated Press whose tenure was book-ended by President Clinton’s impeachment scandal and the September 11 terrorist attacks when, in , she moved to People magazine.

At People, she has specialized in competitive, high-profile exclusives with everyone from Presidents and First Ladies (she has interviewed Michelle and Barack Obama 17 times—a tally nearly met by the dozen-plus sit-downs with President and Mrs.

George W. Bush) to would-be presidents, and is a two-time winner of the White House Correspondents&#; Association award for excellence in presidential reporting under deadline pressure. Westfall, a former legislative aide and speechwriter to the late U.S.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, is married to Frank Westfall, a former Secret Service bomb technician and Navy EOD diver with whom she has a teenaged son, Jonathan, and two Shih-tzus named Scrabble and Dobby. A native of