Sally Wiggin

Sarah Wiggin is an American television news anchor and personality in Pittsburgh.

Early life and education Sally Wiggin was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Chadwick and Margaret Wiggin. Wiggin and her family moved to Florence, Alabama, when she was six years old. She attended Emory University for a year before transferring to the University of Alabama, where she studied East Asian history and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She then became co-anchor of the weekend news at WTAE-TV in 1981. In 1987, she won the United Press International Best Special Award for her work on The Budd Dwyer Special In 2015, she was part of a team that received a Peabody Award. On November 30, 2018, she retired from WTAE. Her only marriage, to a minor league baseball player, ended in divorce.

Community service In 1998 and 1999, Wiggin served on the board of directors of the Women's Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh, one of the first six centers for domestic violence response and prevention that was established in the United States.

Wiggin also served on the boards of the Caring Foundation, Pittsburgh's Parental Stress Center, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium, and has also helped to provide support to, and raise funds for, the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank for over a decade.

In 2022, Wiggin was appointed to the board of directors of the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh."