Tanya Simon is the daughter of Bob Simon, a former 60 Minutes correspondent. She will be the first female executive producer in the program’s 57 years.

CBS News has named “60 Minutes” veteran Tanya Simon as the broadcast's fourth executive producer. Simon, daughter of the late “60 Minutes” correspondent Bob Simon, has been with the show for 25 years and been running it on an interim basis since predecessor Bill Owens quit in April.

All seven of the current correspondents at “60 Minutes” — Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley, Bill Whitaker, Anderson Cooper, Sharyn Alfonsi, Jon Wertheim and Cecilia Vega — signed a letter in May urging Paramount to officially make Simon the show’s executive producer, according to the Status newsletter.