Shannon Bream is an American journalist for the Fox News Channel.
Background
Born in Tallahassee, Florida, Bream is the only daughter of Marie Norris, a teacher, and Editor DePuy, a Leon County Commissioner. While in school, her first job was helping her mother in renovating houses scraping the paint off window panes.
Education
She attended North Florida Christian High School in Tallahassee and graduated in the class of 1988 at the age of 17. Bream attended Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia and graduated in 1992 with a degree in business.
Career
She is Fox News"s Supreme Court reporter as well as the anchor of America"s News Headquarters on Sundays from 12:00-2:00 p.m (Eastern). Bream is also an occasional substitute anchor for Special Report with Bret Baier," "Fox News Sunday," and ""The Kelly File."
While attending Liberty University she entered the Mission Virginia pageant. She participated in the Mission America 1991 pageant and was one of the top 10 finalists.
Her scholarship award covered much of her education.
After graduating from Liberty University in 1993, Bream returned to Tallahassee and attended law school at Florida State University. She interned with Florida Congressman Bill McCollum, in the United States House of Representatives at the time.
McCollum would later become the Florida Attorney General. She is one of only a few women to have competed in these two national pageants representing different states.
After graduation from Florida State University College of Law (1996), Bream moved to Tampa, Florida and began a (employment and labor) law career mainly sexual harassment cases.
Loss of interest in law led to a career change and in 2000 she took a salary cut to get a chance to be part of television news. She talked a local news director into letting her have an internship, then an entry-level job writing scripts on the overnight shift at the American Broadcasting Company news affiliate in Tampa WFTS-television To make it work, Bream worked as a corporate lawyer by day and an intern at the station by night. In 2001, she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, becoming the evening and late-night news reporter for the Columbia Broadcasting System affiliate, WBTV. After three years, Bream joined the National Broadcasting Company affiliate at Washington District of Columbia"s National Broadcasting Company affiliate, World Rally Championship-television in 2004.
At WRC, she was a weekend anchor and covered general assignments.
While at WRC she met Brit Hume, who was managing editor of the Fox News Washington bureau at the time. With his encouragement, she submitted audition tapes.
Bream joined Fox News Channel in November 2007 and is based in the network"s Washington, District of Columbia bureau.