Biography
Laura Jarrett is an American attorney and reporter for CNN and is now a senior legal correspondent at NBC and Saturday Today co-anchor. As the Co-anchor of Saturday TODAY, she read out the guilty verdicts for each of the 34 counts in the Donald Trump hush money trial while crowds of onlookers cheered and jeered in the streets of New York City.
Age
Laura is 40 years old as of 29 October 2023. She was born on 29 October 1983 in Chicago, in the United States.
Parents(Father and Mother)
Her father William Robert Jarrett, is the son of Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett. Even though Jarrett was a newcomer to the community, Valerie Jarrett, her mother, was well-known because she was President Barack Obama’s top advisor for eight years.
Husband
She is the wife of Tony Balkissoon, who is also an anchor. She married Tony in 2012 after they first connected as second-year Harvard Law students in 2008. The couple has two children; A son James Anthony Balkissoon and daughter June Tahay Balkissoon.
Career
Jarrett worked as a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent, covering legal matters and the Justice Department. After leaving her legal practice to join CNN in 2016, Jarrett covered a number of major legal stories during the Trump administration, such as the travel ban, the separation of immigrant families at the border, the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and the high-stakes legal disputes between the Justice Department and Capitol Hill. She had a key part in breaking the initial news in May 2017 on the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to lead the Russia probe and the conclusion of his inquiry in March 2019.
She was also the primary reporter for CNN, covering Senator Bob Menendez’s corruption trial as well as the Justice Department Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s probe into Hillary Clinton’s handling of secret material.
Before joining CNN, Jarrett practiced law in Chicago. In his private practice, Jarrett concentrated on complicated commercial litigation defense as well as defending businesses and individuals in government investigations conducted by the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission. Jarrett also spent a lot of time working on pro bono matters, such as defending a woman who was the victim of sex trafficking and was successful in having her prior convictions erased thanks to a new Illinois legislation.
The Honorable Rebecca Pallmeyer of the Northern District of Illinois and the Honorable Ann C. Williams of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago were the two federal judges for whom Jarrett worked as a law clerk.