Laura Jarrett Bio, Age, Height, Family, Wife, Kids, NBC News

Laura Jarrett Biography

Laura Jarrett is a media personality serving as senior legal correspondent for NBC, covering the Supreme Court and Department of Justice, appearing on all NBC News programs and platforms. She initially worked as a judicial clerk for the District Judge. Later, she even got the opportunity to work with Honorable Ann C. Williams

Laura Jarrett Age

She is 40 years old as of January 2024. She was born on October 29, 1983, and her birthplace is Chicago, United States.

Laura Jarrett Height

She is 5 feet 5 inches tall.

Laura Jarrett Nationality

She holds American nationality.

Laura Jarrett Education

She attended Amherst College in Massachusetts She was raised on the South Side of the city surrounded by family. She then studied at Harvard Law School

Laura Jarrett Family

Her father’s name was William Jarrett and her mother’s name is Valerie Jarrett. Her father William was a Physician and son of Vernon Jarrett, a Chicago Sun-Times reporter.

She also added “Every Sunday night, my grandmother would invite all of our extended family over for a big dinner,”

Laura Jarrett Husband and Kids

Laura is married woman. She got married to her loving husband Tony Balkissoon whom They met in 2008 while second-year law students at Harvard Law School and got married in 2012. Laura and her husband currently live in New York City and together they are blessed with two kids; James who is 4 years old and June 1 year old.

Traditionally, Laura said her Saturday mornings consisted of watching TODAY while making pancakes for her kids, which now allows her to relate to viewers on the other side of the television screens.

Laura Jarrett NBC News

Jarrett is a senior legal correspondent for NBC, covering the Supreme Court and Department of Justice, appearing on all NBC News programs and platforms. NBC News and head of investigations Rich Greenberg announced Jarrett’s hire in a memo Wednesday morning.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, she was hired to work as an attorney in a Chicago law firm. But she had ambitions of becoming a TV news legal analyst. She had long had an interest in journalism and telling stories.

On Sept. 9, the senior legal correspondent for NBC News hosted her first Saturday TODAY show, sitting alongside TODAY co-anchor Peter Alexander and Joe Fryer, who has also recently been named Saturday TODAY’s feature anchor.

She has officially taken her seat at the Saturday TODAY anchor desk! Laura joined NBC from CNN where she spent six years covering the Justice Department and major legal cases for the network. Most recently, she was the co-anchor of Early Start and served as an on-air legal analyst for several notable legal stories including the Supreme Court’s decision overruling Roe v. Wade, the Congressional investigations into January 6th, the investigations into former President Trump, and the legal battles over Covid-19 vaccine mandates,” Greenberg wrote.

On Sept. 8, Laura and Peter joined the TODAY family in Studio 1A ahead of the new team’s debut. “There’s a tradition on the first day when they have the announce, when we say the anchor’s name. So we’ll see Laura’s expression when she hears her name for the first time,” Peter said.

Laura takes over for Kristen Welker, the new moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Kristen gave her successor a sweet shoutout in a congratulatory video compilation for Laura, also featuring Lester Holt and her family.