Alexandra Brandon Stoddard, known professionally asA. B. Stoddard(born March 30, 1967) is an associate editor and columnist at RealClearPolitics.^[1][2]Previously, she worked as an associate editor and columnist forThe Hillnewspaper.^[3][4]She has been quoted by other news media.^[5][6][7]

Her father was Brandon Stoddard and her mother is the author and interior designer Alexandra Stoddard. She graduated with a degree in journalism from Connecticut College in 1989.^[8]She was married on September 7, 1997, to Peter Scott Roberson.^[9]

Stoddard worked as a producer forWorld News Tonight(1999–2002). She covered theU.S. Senatefor ABC News. She won first place in the “Weekly Newspaper – Editorial, Columns, Commentary” category of the Dateline Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists’ Washington, D.C., chapter in 2009,^[10]where the judges called her winning article “insightful”.^[11]She was awarded first place in the “Weekly Newspaper – Editorial” category in 2011,^[12]and was a finalist in the 2012 awards in the “Weekly Newspaper – Editorial, Columns, Commentary” category.^[13][14]

Stoddard is a MSNBC and Fox News political panel member.^[15]She is a columnist onThe Hill. She often appears as a guest onSpecial Report with Bret Baier.^[16][17][18]She was a former congressional reporter forThe Hill.^[19]On October 18, 2012, she wrote the article entitled “Obama spinning toward a loss”.^[20]

Her father Brandon Stoddard was the former president of ABC Entertainment; he was responsible for shows such asRoots,Twin Peaks,My So-Called Life, andThe Winds of War.^[21]She has a sister, Brooke Stoddard.^[22]