Catherine "Cathy" Marshall is an American

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who has worked as a

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and anchorperson. She has worked as an anchor for

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and has also worked with news stations in

Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

;

New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound. With a population of 135,081 as determined by the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, New Haven is List ...

;

Seattle Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...

; and Eugene and

Portland, Oregon Portland ( ) is the List of cities in Oregon, most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, ...

; and as a

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for Fox Sports Northwest. At the beginning of 2010, Marshall joined the news team of MDiTV, a medical news network also based in Portland, as an anchor. In December 2011, she began working as a reporter and anchor at KGW-TV in Portland. In 2022, she began working as an anchor at KTVZ, and became the station's News Director in December, 2022.https://ktvz.com/news/2022/12/14/newschannel-21-announces-news-director-cathy-marshall/ Marshall and husband John Marler co-anchored newscasts in some cities, including at Boston's WHDH and Portland's

KATU KATU (channel 2) is a television station in Portland, Oregon, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside La Grande–licensed independent station KUNP, channel 16 (which KATU simulcasts on its sec ...

Personal life

Marshall graduated with honors from

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs and a variety of graduate and doctor ...

in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in speech communications. She is married to John Marler, also a news anchor, and the couple have four children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Cathy Living people Television anchors from Boston CNN people Television anchors from Portland, Oregon Television anchors from Seattle Oregon State University alumni People from Eugene, Oregon Year of birth missing (living people) Lakeridge High School alumni