Jami Floyd

Known for Acting

Biography

Jami Floyd is an American attorney, journalist, network news anchor, legal and political analyst, and former White House Fellow. Floyd and has won a Gracie Award, a Telly Award, and the National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award and has been nominated twice for an Emmy Award. In 1997, she joined ABC News, where she worked as a news correspondent for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. In 2005, Floyd returned to Court TV to launch her own series, Jami Floyd: Best Defense. In 2010, when Court TV folded, she joined MSNBC as a legal and political analyst. In 2013 she joined the newly launching Al Jazeera America based in New York City and stayed with the network until shortly before its closure in 2016.