Jan Jeffcoat

Who is Jan Jeffcoat?

Jan Jeffcoat is an evening TV news anchor for WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C.. She co-anchors the weekday 5 p.m., 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts. Previously Jeffcoat was the co-host for The List, a national news/entertainment magazine show. She was also a morning and afternoon news anchor at WFLD-TV in Chicago from 2007 to 2012. Jeffcoat started anchoring in Chicago on June 2007. She hosted WFLD-TV's Good Day Chicago for 3 years which won an Illinois AP award for Best Newscast in 2008. While in Chicago, she won an Edward R. Murrow Award for a documentary she hosted and reported while covering the devastation in Haiti. She also garnered two local Emmy awards for separate reports. Before joining Fox Chicago, Jeffcoat was a morning anchor at KRIV-TV in Houston, TX. She worked at KRIV-TV from November 2004 to June 2007. During her time at KRIV-TV the morning show became Houston's fastest growing morning news. Before coming to Houston, Jeffcoat worked as a morning and noon news anchor for two successful shows at WBTV in Charlotte, N.C., and WCSC-TV in Charleston, S.C.

Jeffcoat was once the only Texas television personality to anchor 4 hours of news each day.