Background
Anne Butler Montgomery was born in 1955 and grew up in Livingston, New Jersey.
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Montgomery attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, including one year (1975-1976) at its John East. Dolibois European Campus in Luxembourg. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from Miami in 1977.
Career
She was among the first women sportscasters on television, and is reported to be the only woman high school football referee in the state of Arizona. She was an ice skater and has a bronze test medal in ice dancing from the United States Figure Skating Association. She also has a Master"s Degree in Education Curriculum and a Reading Specialist Credential, both from the University of Phoenix.
Sports Official/Television Sportscaster
After graduating from college, Montgomery was unable to get a broadcasting job.
Using her skating background, she moved to Washington, District of Columbia and began hockey officiating. She later expanded into other sports, has officiated football, baseball, ice hockey, soccer and basketball games in six states.
Montgomery is a high school football referee and crew chief for the Arizona Interscholastic Association., She is reported to be the only female referee in Arizona. Breaking into a male-dominated field in the 1980s, Montgomery was a sportscaster at WRBL-television in Columbus, Georgia, WROC-television in Rochester, New York and KTSP-television in Phoenix, Arizona.
She was one of the first female anchors for the Emmy and American Council on Exercise award-winning SportsCenter for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network in Bristol, Connecticut.
She was the on-camera studio host for the National Basketball Association’s Phoenix Suns for two years. Writer/Author/Teacher
Montgomery has been a freelance and staff reporter, writing feature articles, movie reviews, and pieces on sports and archeological subjects. In 2005, Montgomery"s book The Jerusalem Syndrome, the Wreck of the Sunset Limited, a fictional account of the 1995 sabotage of a passenger train in Hyder, Arizona - a deadly, cold case crime - was awarded honorable mention in genre fiction in the Writer’s Digest International Self-Published Book Awards.
Montgomery"s historical novel, The Magician, named an Editors" Top Pick by Musa Publishing, was released in December 2013.
In 2000, Anne Montgomery began teaching video journalism at South Mountain High School in Phoenix, Arizona. She currently teaches journalism and history.
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