Laura Coates Biography
Laura Coates is an American attorney, commentator, law Professor, author, and radio talk show host. She is a CNN legal analyst and host of the eponymous daily show on SiriusXM’s Urban View channel. She is a former federal prosecutor and assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
Laura Coates Age
Laura is 42 years old, she was born in 1980 in Twin Cities, Minnesota, United States. She celebrates her birthday on July 11.
Laura Coates Education
Coates graduated from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the University of Minnesota Law School, where she serves on the Board of Advisors.
Laura Coates Parents
Laura is the daughter of Norman Coates and Martha Yarboro Coates. Her father is a dentist who graduated from Amherst having spent most of his childhood in foster care. Her mother is a banker for Wells Fargo. She has two older sisters who just like her parents attended Smith and Amherst.
Laura Coates Husband
Coates is married to Dale Gordon, an IT engineer. The couple live in Washington, D.C. with their kids.Her husband is not to be confused with the renowned actor Dale Gordon who is best known for Star Trek (2009), Independence Day (1996) and Stargate (1994) as he is married to Charlotte Gordon.
Laura Coates Children
Laura and her husband are parents to two children, a son named Adrian born in 2013 and a daughter known as Sydney born in 2014.
Attorney Laura Coates
Laura is a former attorney for the Department of Justice. She served as a Trial Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice during the Bush and Obama administrations, specializing in the enforcement of voting rights throughout the country. She also served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, prosecuting a myriad of violent felony offenses including drug trafficking, armed offenses, domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual assault.
She began her career in law practicing in Minnesota and New York handling cases ranging from intellectual property litigation and First Amendment issues to Defamation and Media law. She later public service as a federal prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice.
As a federal prosecutor, her job included a stint in the voting rights section of the Department of Justice, where she fought against efforts to disenfranchise voters of color. At that time, however the Voting Rights Act was in full force, and had not yet been gutted by the Supreme Court in the infamous Shelby County v. Holder decision of 2013
Laura Coates CNN Tonight
Laura is a senior legal analyst for CNN, specializing in the intersection of civil rights and criminal prosecution. She is also the host of CNN Tonight (11.p.m). She is a former host of CNN Tonight along with Jake Tapper and Alisyn Camerota. She played a central role in CNN’s programming surrounding the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, including hosting a special entitled “White House in Crisis: The Impeachment Inquiry.”
In June 2020 she made fundamental contributions to the coverage of the unrest in Minneapolis and the protests around the world following George Floyd’s death. She moderated “Mayors Who Matter: A CNN Town Hall on Race and Covid-19” with four female African American mayors on the front lines.
Laura Coates Show
Laura hosts the daily eponymous show on SiriusXM’s UrbanView channel, The Laura Coates Show, which broadcasts live 10AM-12PM ET. The show features her analysis of the trending news of the day and impactful interviews with entertainers, politicians, DC insiders and game changers on the topics of politics, pop culture and everything in between. She has also hosted a series of true crime specials for the Oxygen network.
Laura Coates Book
Laura is the author of the bestselling 2016 book, ‘You Have the Right: A Constitutional Guide to Policing the Police’. She wrote the book after recognizing the dire need for increased police accountability and improved police-community relations. In the book, she helps citizens know and understand their 4th, 5th and 6th Amendment rights.
Laura Coates CNN Salary
Laura’s annual salary is approximately $84,000.
Laura Coates Net worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Laura Coates Jeopardy
In July 2019 Alex Trebek, Jeopardy! host during an interview on Fox News with Harvey Levin of TMZ when asked about his future on the show he said there was just a “50-50” chance he would return after the end of his contract in 2020. Asked who might be a good successor, Trebek named Los Angeles Kings play-by-play announcer Alex Faust and then Coates.
“There is an attorney, Laura Coates. She’s an African American, and she appears on some of the cable news shows from time to time.”
Alex has hosted the show since 1984. Coates said she was surprised that Trebek even knew her name, and says she was honored by the suggestion. Before the announcement, Coates says she only saw two possible Jeopardy! hosts: “Alex Trebek with a mustache and Alex Trebek without a mustache.”