Education
University of Pennsylvania Law School.
University of Pennsylvania Law School.
On weeknights in Philadelphia. Early life and education
Chenault-Fattah majored in political science at Johns Hopkins University, and went on to earn her Juris Doctor 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 master"s degree in journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
She joined the station in September 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, first with Ken Matz and then with Larry Mendte. Chenault is one of several minority females to have anchored evening weekday newscasts in Philadelphia.
The others include former KYW-television Eyewitness News anchors Beverly Williams and Alycia Lane and WPVI-television Action News anchor Lisa Thomas-Laury.
After being suspended for seven months following her husband"s indictment, the station fired her on February 24, 2016. = Honors and awards Chenault-Fattah 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 inducted Chenault-Fattah into their Hall of Fame in 2009.
Personal life
Chenault-Fattah is the third wife of Pennsylvania politician Chaka Fattah and they have a daughter together named Chandler Fattah.
2 1/2 years prior to marrying Fattah, Chenault-Fattah had a daughter named Cameron Chenault through artificial insemination.