She was often heard - and then seen - clattering down the marble corridors of power in the Capitol in hot pursuit of a scandal-scarred legislator trying to dodge her. Sanders was also one of the most stylish reporters in a segment of journalism where wardrobe and fashion are valued. She won the New York state Emmy for a 1999 story in which she tracked down the perpetrator of a baby abduction in the streets of Troy with shoe-leather reporting that outpaced detectives and helped cops make the arrest. She had a dogged, fearless style when it came to chasing a story. Sanders was a triple threat in broadcast journalism: admired by colleagues, respected by competitors, feared by unscrupulous politicians.
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"She was always one of the brightest reporters on TV, and when she left TV she turned into a first-rate photographer," said author William Kennedy, who, with his wife, Dana, visited Sanders in Lenox. Novotny opened a silver locket, a gift from Sanders with instructions not to open it until after her death. "The quiet grace and dignity that carried Judy through these past five years was with her till her last breath," said longtime friend Susan Novotny, who traveled with Sanders throughout her cancer ordeal, including an African safari, and they raced sailboats together on Lake George. If it is possible to achieve a so-called "good death," Sanders made a run at it. She was meditating and reading spiritual texts, including "The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying." Sanders said she had taken comfort in quietude and the pastoral beauty of the Berkshires in her final months. She did not disclose her 2009 cancer diagnosis widely until she sent an email to members of the Capitol press corps shortly before a Times Union profile was published on May 22. Eliot Spitzer, Sanders was a deeply private person. Sanders died at a condominium she rented several months ago to be near relatives in Lenox without becoming a burden to them.ĭespite her high-profile three-decade career as a reporter at WRGB and serving as the official photographer to three governors beginning with Gov. Sanders, who never married, owned a townhouse in Albany's Mansion neighborhood that belonged to the writer Toni Morrison when she taught at the University at Albany in the 1980s. She was always in the present and said she would live every day until the time came that it was over." "She never got morose about dying and she wasn't afraid of it," said her older sister, Vicki, a former newspaper reporter.
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