Gregg Jarrett
| Gregg Jarrett | |
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| Born | April 7, 1955 California, U. S. |
| Occupation | News anchor, Fox News Channel |
| Gregg Jarrett's profile on FOXNews.com - Official website | |
Gregory Walter "Gregg" Jarrett[1] (born April 7, 1955) is an American news anchor for Fox News Channel.
Joining the network in November 2002, he co-anchors weekend newscasts with Julie Banderas and serves as a substitute anchor weekdays. He graduated magna cum laude from Claremont Men's College in 1977 and received a law degree in 1980 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He was a defense attorney in San Francisco for several years with the law firm of Gordon & Rees LLP.
Prior to Fox News, Jarrett worked at MSNBC as an anchor and correspondent. While at MSNBC, he covered many stories including the September 11th Attacks, Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election Controversy.
Jarrett also worked at Court TV (the network now known as truTV) for eight years, serving as the anchor of Prime Time Justice, in addition to covering many different trials on the network, and hosting the network's nationally syndicated half-hour broadcast magazine show, Inside America’s Courts. He was a main anchor for the O.J. Simpson double murder trial on location in Los Angeles in 1995.
Prior to Court TV, Jarrett worked for a number of local stations including KCSM-TV in San Francisco, CA, WMDT-TV in Salisbury, MD, WKFT-TV in Raleigh, NC and KSNW-TV in Wichita, KS, where at KSNW he captured the famous "underpass tornado" video that has been featured on many T.V. storm specials.
In addition to anchoring weekend newscasts on the Fox News Channel, Jarrett is a substitute anchor weekdays for America's Newsroom (in for Bill Hemmer), Happening Now (in for Jon Scott), The Live Desk (in for Trace Gallagher), and Studio B for Shepard Smith). Jarrett is also a correspondent for the network's one-hour documentaries, and he serves as a legal analyst for both FNC and the Fox Business Network. He is a regular guest-panelist on Fox's late-night program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.
Jarrett has also made a couple of appearances as the newsreader for the Glenn Beck Program since December 2010.
Jarrett's height is 6'1" (185 cm) tall.
Jarrett is married with two daughters.
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