Ann B. Walker

Ann B. Walker (November 1, 1923 – October 5, 2025) was an American journalist, editor, radio personality and businesswoman. She is most notable for being the first woman broadcaster to report on the Ohio legislature for NBC4 in Columbus, Ohio, and later became the first woman in broadcast management in the city's and station's history. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame as the first woman broadcaster to report on the Ohio Legislature in 1978.

Background On November 1, 1923, Walker was born in Columbus, Ohio. She had 5 brothers.

She married Linwood B. Walker.

Education Walker graduated high school from East High School. She attended Prairie View A&M College in Texas on a tennis scholarship before receiving her bachelor's degree from George Williams College in 1944. One of her best known columns was called "Ann Walker's Party Line." Walker served as a Columbus Consumer Protection Committee member.

Later in the 1970s, she began working at the Columbus's WLWC (now WCMH-TV) radio station, where she interviewed Martin Luther King Jr., Angela Davis, and then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter. It was at WLWC that she became the first woman in broadcast management at the station. She is also featured on the Long Street Cultural Wall.