Renee Chenault-Fattah

Renee Chenault-Fattah
Renee Chenault-Fattah with her husband Chaka Fattah, March 2007
Born	October 12, 1957 (1957-10-12)
Education	University of Missouri University of Pennsylvania Law School Johns Hopkins University
Occupation	NBC 10 News Anchor
Title	NBC 10 News Anchor
Spouse	US Congressman Chaka Fattah
Children	Cameron Chandler
Website
http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/station/about-us/Renee_Chenault-Fattah.html NBC 10 Bio

Renee Chenault-Fattah (born October 12, 1957) is the co-anchor of the of WCAU NBC 10 News at 4, 6, and 11 p.m. on weeknights in Philadelphia. She is married to U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah of the 2nd Congressional District of Pennsylvania.

Chenault-Fattah majored in political science at Johns Hopkins University and went on to the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She worked at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, a law firm in New York, and then clerked for Judge Damon Keith of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals before beginning her media career, earning a journalism degree at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.

She joined the station in 1991, and served as an anchor and a reporter. After a few years anchoring the now-defunct noon broadcast with Tim Lake, she was promoted to the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news in March 1995. In 2003, Lake joined Chenault as co-anchor at 4 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m., after she had spent 8 years co-anchoring newscasts at 6 and 11 with first, Ken Matz, then with Larry Mendte (Chenault and Mendte first were together at 11).

Chenault is one of several minority females to anchor evening weekday newscasts in Philadelphia. The others include former KYW-TV Eyewitness News anchors Beverly Williams, and Alycia Lane and WPVI-TV Action News anchor Lisa Thomas-Laury. Chenault and KYW's Susan Barnett are also the only female news co-anchors at 6 & 11 since Jim Gardner at WPVI-TV anchors on his own. They both also have one thing in common: they have co-anchored newscasts with Larry Mendte.

For nearly 10 years, until Alycia Lane arrived at KYW-TV, Chenault was the only female news anchor in Philadelphia co-anchoring weeknights at 6 and 11.

She was named to the PoliticsPA list of "Sy Snyder's Power 50" list of influential individuals in Pennsylvania politics in 2002. She was also named to the PoliticsPA list of "Pennsylvania's Most Politically Powerful Women"