Pamela Ashley Brown

Who is Pamela Ashley Brown?

Pamela Ashley Brown, is an American television reporter and newscaster. Brown works as an on-air reporter and occasional anchor for ABC Washington, D.C., affiliate WJLA-TV. Brown also works as an on-air reporter and intermittently as an anchor for TBD TV in Washington, D.C.

Brown was born in Lexington, Kentucky and is the daughter of businessman and politician John Y. Brown, Jr. and former Miss America and businesswoman Phyllis George. George took maternity leave from her duties on CBS' iconic National Football League pregame show, The NFL Today, to give birth to Pamela. She is also the granddaughter of politician John Y. Brown, Sr. and the half-sister of former Kentucky Secretary of State John Y. Brown, III.

Brown graduated from Henry Clay High School in Lexington and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in broadcast journalism. While at the University of North Carolina, Brown was a reporter on the University’s Carolina Week.

Brown was named after her aunt, Pamela Brown, who in 1970 was 28 years old when she died, along with her husband Rod Anderson and balloonist Malcolm Brighton, in an ill-fated attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a Rozière balloon dubbed "The Free Life."