Laura Coates
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About
Attorney who became well-known as a legal analyst for CNN. In 2017, she began hosting a talk radio show called The Laura Coates Show on SiriusXM's Urban View. Prior to her media career, she was a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice during George W. Bush and Barack Obama's administrations. She was also an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Before Fame
She graduated with a Bachelor of the Arts from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in 2001. In 2005, she received her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Trivia
She published books titled You Have the Right: A Constitution Guide to Policing the Police and Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness. In 2019, she hosted two documentaries on the Oxygen Network. The first, The Disappearance of the Millbrook Twins and the second, Murder and Justice: The Case of Martha Moxley.
Family Life
She married IT engineer Dale Gordon. They had two children together.
Associated With
In 2018, she was suggested by Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek as his replacement.
