Jami Floyd

About Jami Floyd

Jami Floyd is a former lawyer and current Court TV news anchor and legal analyst. Floyd joined Court TV in February 2005. She is currently the anchor of her own daily program, Jami Floyd: Best Defense from 11AM-1PM on weekdays. Prior to coming to Court TV, Floyd worked as an anchor and correspondent at the network from 1996 to 1998, primarily covering major national news stories, including the O.J. Simpson murder trial and the Oklahoma City bombing trials, as well as several landmark cases pertaining the tobacco industry.

Jami Floyd received her political science degree from Binghamton University in 1986. She graduated with honors from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. She first served as a law clerk for the California Supreme Court before joining the law firm of Morrison & Foerster, where she was involved with both the practices of civil and criminal law. Floyd joined the Office of the San Francisco Public Defender, where she continued her work as a trial attorney, in 1993. Floyd holds a B.A. in political science from Binghamton University. Aside from her JD, Floyd also holds a Master of Laws degree from Stanford Law School, where she also served as a teaching fellow.

A supporter of the Democratic Party, Floyd left for Washington, D.C. to serve as a White House fellow, assigned to the office of First Lady Hillary Clinton, toward the end of 1993. She was later assigned to the office of Vice President Al Gore.