Jill Monier

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - She's lived in the Midwest, the Southwest and now award winning journalist, Jill Monier is making a home in the Mid-South.

Jill has covered major news stories over the course of her career, including the Columbia Shuttle disaster, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the mass murder of 6 people on Lester Street in Memphis, the murder trial of Mary Winkler who was charged with killing her pastor husband, and the 2008 Presidential debates in Oxford, MS.

She recently stood on the Mississippi coast as Hurricane Gustav barreled in.

Jill's stories have appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN and CourtTV.

Before joining FOX13, Jill was the weekend anchor in Decatur, Illinois where she covered the shooting death of a security guard inside the state Capitol and the aftermath of a tornado that ripped through downtown Springfield.

Jill started her career as a reporter for KBIM/KRQE in Roswell/Albuquerque, New Mexico where she won 6 Associated Press awards and 2 New Mexico Broadcasters Awards for her reporting.

While in New Mexico, Jill went inside a maximum security prison for a series on gangs. She was on the front lines during wildfires and broke a national story about a company, under investigation for hoarding illegal warheads inside a bunker at the Roswell airport.

Jill is a graduate of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She's originally from Princeton, Illinois where much of her family still lives.

In their free time, Jill and her husband Nick like to try different Memphis restaurants and root for all the Memphis sports teams, the Chicago Cubs and of course, da' Bears.

You can contact Jill at jill.monier@myfoxmemphis.com .

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