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Renee Chenault-Fattah

Renee Chenault-Fattah (born October 12, 1957 in Littleton, Colorado) is the co-anchor of the of WCAU NBC 10 News at 4 and 6 p.m. on weeknights in Philadelphia. She is married to U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah of the 2nd Congressional District of Pennsylvania.Chenault-Fattah majored in political science at Johns Hopkins University, and went on to earn her J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She worked at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, a law firm in New York, and then clerked for Judge Damon Keith of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She then began her media career, earning a journalism degree at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.She joined the station in 1991, and served as an anchor and a reporter. After a few years anchoring the now-defunct noon broadcast with Tim Lake, she was promoted to the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news in March 1995. In 2003, Lake joined Chenault as co-anchor at 4 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m., after she had spent 8 years co-anchoring newscasts at 6 and 11 with first, Ken Matz, then with Larry Mendte.Chenault is one of several minority females to have anchored evening weekday newscasts in Philadelphia. The others include former KYW-TV Eyewitness News anchors Beverly Williams, and Alycia Lane and WPVI-TV Action News anchor Lisa Thomas-Laury.She was named to the PoliticsPA list of "Sy Snyder's Power 50" list of influential individuals in Pennsylvania politics in 2002. She was also named to the PoliticsPA list of "Pennsylvania's Most Politically Powerful Women"The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia [1] inducted Chenault-Fattah into their Hall of Fame in 2009.