Gail Huff

Gail Huff Brown (née Huff; born February 9, 1962) is an American broadcast journalist. Huff most recently worked as a special correspondent and news contributor for WWJE-DT. Huff also previously worked with WJLA-TV, an ABC station, in Washington, D.C. for several years, after seventeen years for WCVB-TV, the ABC affiliate in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the wife of former U.S. ambassador and Senator Scott Brown. Early life and education Huff was born in Winterset, Iowa, where her father was a medical doctor, an epidemiologist. In 1978, her family moved to Waltham, Massachusetts. She graduated from Waltham High School in 1980 and attended Bentley University, earning a bachelor degree in business communications. She attended graduate classes at Emerson College before beginning her broadcast career in 1984. Career Huff's broadcast journalism career began with Greenville, North Carolina-based WNCT-TV in 1984. In 1986, she joined WLNE-TV in Providence, Rhode Island as a general assignment reporter. She later held the same position at WFSB-TV, in Hartford, Connecticut in 1989. All three television stations were CBS affiliates. Huff was employed as a reporter at WCVB-TV starting in 1993, working the 3–10 A.M. shift, while her daughters, Ayla Brown and Arianna, were growing up. During her husband's campaign, Huff stayed away from news assignments that may have affected his election prospects, and never appeared at campaign events until his victory speech on January 20, 2010. She resigned her position at WCVB-TV six months later, citing family considerations. Later that year, she took a position with WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. On February 28, 2013, she resigned from WJLA-TV, and moved with her husband, to Rye, New Hampshire.