Jami Floyd: Best Defense
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Jami Floyd is the anchor of her own daily program, Jami Floyd: Best Defense on In Session. She returned to the network in 2005 having previously been an anchor and correspondent from 1996-1998, covering major national legal stories. She reported live for the verdict in the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols and the $206 billion tobacco settlement.

Before returning to In Session, Floyd was a correspondent for ABC News, then co-anchored World News Now and the Early Morning News. She also regularly anchored the networks newsbreaks.

In early 1999, Floyd was named ABC’s Law & Justice Correspondent. She pioneered coverage of the use of post-conviction DNA analysis to exonerate those wrongfully convicted of crimes. Floyd also covered police corruption in New York and Los Angeles.

In 2000, Floyd was part of the elite team of reporters dispatched to Tallahassee to cover the presidential election and recount. Ultimately, she helped to report and analyze the series of intensely complicated court decisions that culminated in the historic Bush v. Gore decision of the US Supreme Court and the final resolution of the 2000 election.

She reported extensively from Ground Zero, filing breaking news reports in the days and weeks following the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Floyd continued her post-9/11 reporting through the one-year anniversary of that event.

Floyd has won several awards for her work, including two Cine Golden Eagle Awards for her reporting on law and justice issues. Her work on the Tulia, Texas, wrongful convictions story garnered several awards, including the Chris Award and the NABJ Salute to Excellence.

An honors graduate of the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, Floyd began her career at the California Supreme Court as a law clerk to the late Hon. Allen E. Broussard. In late 1993, she moved to Washington, D.C., to serve as a White House Fellow, assigned first to the office of First Lady Hillary Clinton and later to the office of Vice President Al Gore.

Floyd holds a BA in political science from Binghamton University. In addition to her JD, she holds a Master of Laws degree from the Stanford Law School, where she also served as a teaching fellow.