Judith Davidson is a former producer and is best known as the wife of American journalist and political commentator Bill Moyers, who died on June 26, 2025, at the age of 91 in New York City, U.S. They married in 1954 and had three children named William Cope Moyers, Alice Suzanne Moyers, and John Davidson Moyers. Her full name is Judith Suzanne Davidson. Her husband passed away in a hospital in Manhattan from prostate cancer.
Her daughter, Suzanne Moyers, is a former teacher, editor, and author of the historical novel ‘Til All These Things Be Done.
She is known as producer for Bill Moyers’ Journal (1972), Now on PBS (2002) and Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers (1993). She produced 16 Tv movies and series l.
Her son William Cope Moyers is a CNN producer, and her other son John Moyers works as an assistant in the foundation of TomPaine.com. She also worked as Editor for Frontline, Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report and Fooling with Words.
Her husband, Bill Moyers, served as the eleventh White House Press Secretary from 1965 to 1967. He was director of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1967 to 1974. He also worked as a network TV news commentator.
His full name was Billy Don Moyers, who was born on June 5, 1934, in Hugo, Oklahoma, U.S. He followed the Democratic Party.
He began his career as a cub reporter at the Marshall News Messenger at the age of 16. He completed his education in journalism at North Texas State College in Denton, Texas. In 1956, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism.
Previously, in 1954, he worked as a summer intern employed by U.S. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1959, he completed a Master of Divinity degree at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.
“Not only was Bill a journalist of the highest caliber, he played an essential role in the creation of PBS as a trusted aide to President Johnson,” said Paula Kerger, President & CEO of PBS.
“He died after a long illness at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York,” his son William Cope Moyers said. “His wife of over 70 years, Judith, was by his side.”
