Susan Hutchison (née Sylvester; born March 24, 1954) is an American television news journalist, educator, and politician.

Hutchison is a professor for Seattle Pacific University's MBA program, instructing graduate students in managerial communications.

[3] Hutchison's husband, Andy, an executive with the Boeing Company served as a retired colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.

A 1949 West Point graduate, he flew transports, then became a fighter pilot in the mid-1960s and commanded an F-4 squadron in South Vietnam at Da Nang.

[7][8] As a military daughter and the second of three children,[9] she was raised in various locations and attended Niceville High School in the panhandle of Florida and transferred in 1970 to Annandale High School in Annandale, Virginia, a suburb southwest of Washington, D.C. After graduation in 1972,[10] she enrolled at the University of Florida in Gainesville and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism, graduating early in 1975.

[15] She also has been a spokesperson for the American Leprosy Mission, Northwest Medical Teams, Job Corps, and March of Dimes, and has emceed charitable auctions, fundraising events and dinners.

[16][17] Her civic involvement includes the Governor's A+ Commission on Education, National Collegiate Athletic Association Committee on Compliance, the King County Independent Task Force on Elections, and the Chancellor's Advisory Council for Seattle Community Colleges.