Roxanne Walker Cordonier’s Biography

Roxanne Walker Cordonier was born in Marshall, Michigan, attended Western Kentucky University and graduated from the University of South Carolina Spartanburg now known as University of South Carolina Upstate. She began her radio career while attending WKU in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1979. Her radio career has taken her to Spartanburg, SC, Charleston, West Virginia, Asheville, North Carolina and finally Greenville, SC. Roxanne was named South Carolina Broadcasters Association’s Radio Personality of the Year in 2002 and was also honored for by the SC Broadcasters Association for her work on the Love and Hudson Show on WMYI.

Roxanne has been honored by the Greenville Chapter of Women in Communications with three Matrix Awards for her political opinion column in MetroBEAT an alternative news weekly. Roxanne’s career in media has also included appearing in a nationally distributed television commercial, radio and television voice-overs and narration and appearances in corporate training films. She has provided election night coverage for SC-ETV.

Roxanne is active in Democratic Party politics and currently serves as the editor of The Bray the monthly newsletter for the Greenville County Democratic Party. She is a founding board member of Hands on Greenville and the South Carolina Ovarian Cancer Foundation, has served on the Jr. League of Greenville’s Community Advisory Board and was co-chair of Taste of the Nation 2002, a benefit for Loaves and Fishes food rescue program.

Roxanne is married to Alan Cordonier and has a son Ben who graduated with honors in the spring of 2007 from Wade Hampton High School and was awarded a BA in industrial design from Savannah College of Art and Design in June 2011.