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Name Jennifer Wishon

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB May 4, 1979. As of 2024, she is around 45 years old.

Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Spouse / Partner Married. Check the full bio for relationship details.

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Introduction :

Dubbed as ‘The Elegant Professional,’ Jennifer Wishon is the White House Correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN).
Although she is a hard-hitting journalist and a talented writer, Jennifer remains professional and calm at all times.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Jennifer is married to lawyer and Majority Leader of the Virginia House of Delegates – Todd Gilbert. They live on a farm in Virginia.
The couple has one child Christopher who was born on August 9, 2017. He has his own twitter account @babygilbert.

Early Life and Education :

Born on May 4, 1979, Jennifer is a native of Bedford County.
She attended the Jefferson Forest High School, graduating in 1997 with an Advanced Diploma

She went on to Virginia Tech where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Media Studies. She is a proud ‘hokie.’
Jennifer is a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, a women’s organization offering opportunities of friendship, mentoring, leadership and service.

Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :

For the first seven years after graduating, Jennifer worked at WBDJ-TV. She started off as a General Assignment Reporter and anchor and later became the Capitol Correspondent and Richmond Bureau Chief.
Wishon joined CBN in 2008 and has held several positions there. She was the Congressional Correspondent before becoming a White House Correspondent. Since February 2018, she is the Senior Washington Correspondent.
When covering the White House, Jennifer says it was hard because former President Trump allowed access to himself every day. Consequently, the journalists have to write faster, think faster, and often go without sleep.

One report close to her heart was when she covered the shootings at Virginia Tech.
She appears on The 700 Club, a television talk show that covers many topics from a Christian perspective.
She says that CBN covers stories from a Christian perspective and will broadcast stories that others won’t be seen on other networks. For example, when she sent a crew down to North Carolina to cover hurricane Florence, they went to the local churches to find out how the community was pulling together and find the people behind the stories.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

Jennifer says that trying to cover former President Trump’s stories was like ‘drinking from a fire hose.’
She met her husband when she was on an assignment covering gun laws and mass shootings. Just before she interviewed him, she heard a voice say to her, “You are going to marry him.”

Since having her house ransacked one time, she admits to keeping a gun in the house.

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