News anchor Symone Woolridge is leaving Milwaukee’s WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) after two years

Symone Woolridge is leaving WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) after more than two years as a news anchor “to pursue other opportunities and spend time with her family,” the station reported on its website.

“It’s not about how long you’ve been somewhere or how long you’ve known someone, it’s about how that person or place has made you feel,” Woolridge said in the story on Channel 4’s website. “Milwaukee and TMJ4 has made me feel so loved and cared for and I’m forever grateful.”

Woolridge joined Channel 4 in March 2022 as anchor of the station’s noon and 4 p.m. weekday newscasts. In August of that year, she and Tom Durian were named co-anchors of Channel 4’s weekday morning newscast, as Milwaukee’s NBC affiliate shifted Susan Kim to early evening news anchor slots and former morning co-anchor Vince Vitrano left to host the morning show on WTMJ-AM (620).

Woolridge, an Evanston, Illinois, native who still has family in the Chicago area, came to Milwaukee from WREG-TV in Memphis, Tennessee, where she was the breaking news anchor on that station’s morning newscasts. Before joining WREG in 2018, she worked at stations in Tupelo, Mississippi, and Carterville, Illinois.

According to the story on Channel 4’s website, Woolridge’s last day at the station will be Nov. 8.