Peggy Wehmeyer

Peggy Wehmeyer (born 1955, Oklahoma City) is an American journalist.

She was raised mostly in Barbados and Texas, and is a graduate of the University of Texas in Austin. As a young woman, Peggy worked at Dallas Theological Seminary in the Public Relations Department. It was while working at DTS that she met her future husband, Mark Woods. In 1994, she was hired by ABC News, with the strong support of Peter Jennings, to become the first full-time religion correspondent on a national news network. Prior to her job at ABC, she worked at WFAA-TV in Dallas on the station's religion beat. In 2002, she left ABC to become the host and anchor of the World Vision Report, the radio arm of the World Vision charitable organization. Peggy has two adult daughters. She recently lost her husband of 25+ years. Mark was a well-known psychologist in the Dallas area..