Washington Redskins to hire Julie Donaldson as their Senior Vice President

The Washington Redskins are already implementing the “changes' ' they promised announcing the hiring of Julie Donaldson to oversee all its broadcasts as senior vice president Tuesday.

According to ESPN, Donaldson will be part of Washington’s radio team but will not be doing any ‘play-by-play.’ This comes on the eve of former play-by-play announcer Larry Michael retired last week amid sexual harassment allegations.

With the hiring, Donaldson will become the first woman to be a regular on-air member of an NFL team’s radio broadcast booth.

She spent 10 years at NBC Washington news station in numerous roles such as: anchor, reporter and host.