Gregg Jarrett

Gregg Jarrett was born in Los Angeles and raised in nearby San Marino, California, graduating from San Marino High School in 1973. He graduated magna cum laude from Claremont Men's College in 1977 with a Political Science degree.

In 1980, Gregg Jarrett graduated from law school at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He then worked for several years in San Francisco with the firm of Gordon & Rees LLP as a defense attorney. Gregg maintains his California bar license and has taught law as an adjunct professor at New York Law School and lectured at other law schools.

Gregg Jarrett joined the Fox News Channel in November 2002 where he co-anchors weekend newscasts with Heather Childers. Gregg also serves as a substitute anchor weekdays for America's Newsroom (in for Bill Hemmer), Happening Now (in for Jon Scott), and Shepard Smith Reporting for (in for Shepard Smith). He is also a correspondent for the network's one-hour documentaries and serves as a legal analyst for both FNC and the Fox Business Network. Although Gregg Jarrett lacks a journalism degree, he covered the Iraq War as a correspondent for Fox based in Baghdad from May through July 2003. Whilst embedded with the 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division, he was among the first to report from Fallujah.

Prior to joining Fox, Gregg Jarrett worked at MSNBC as an anchor and correspondent. He was anchoring on the morning of September 11th, 2001 during the 9/11 plane attacks. Gregg Jarrett also served as a correspondent covering the Second Intifada in November and December 2001, reporting and anchoring newscasts from Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Jarrett reported live from the Ben Yehuda Street bombing in Jerusalem on December 1st, 2001, when two suicide bombers and a car bomb killed 13 people, including many children, and injured 188 others.

Gregg Jarrett worked at Court TV (the network now known as TruTV) for eight years, serving as the anchor of Prime Time Justice. He hosted the network's nationally syndicated half-hour magazine show, Inside America's Courts, which was seen daily on broadcast stations (NBC in New York City and Los Angeles) and weekends on CNBC. Gregg Jarrett was the main anchor for the O J Simpson murder trial on location in Los Angeles in 1995, and he covered other major trials including the Menendez brothers, William Kennedy Smith, Jeffrey Dahmer, Rodney King, Marv Albert, and former au pair Louise Woodward. The weekly legal column of Gregg Jarrett, syndicated by Knight Ridder/Tribune Media, was distributed to 350 newspapers across the country.

Prior to Court TV, Gregg Jarrett worked for a number of local stations including KCSM-TV in San Francisco, California; WMDT-TV in Salisbury, Maryland; WKFT-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina and KSNW-TV in Wichita, Kansas. While at KSNW, he captured the Emmy award-winning “underpass tornado” video which was famously featured on many T.V. storm specials.