American journalist and newscaster, Leon Harris currently lives in Avenel, Potomac, Maryland with his wife Dawn, a nurse at a local hospital.
Leon has a son and a daughter – Darren and Lauren.
Darren is a graduate of Bucknell University and lives in Seattle, WA; while his daughter Lauren is a graduate of Temple University and an early childhood educator who lives in Atlanta, GA.
Born April 20, 1961, in Akron, Ohio, Leon graduated from Buchtel High School in 1979 and earned a National Merit Scholarship to Ohio University, where he met his wife, Dawn Lomax.
Harris graduated cum laude from Ohio University in 1983, majoring in communications. He received an honorary Doctorate from the University in 1999.
Harris started his career at CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta in the early 1980s as an unpaid intern while completing his degree.
April 2017, NBC owned-and-operated station WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. announced that Leon Harris would join its news team.
He currently co-anchors News 4 at 4 alongside Pat Lawson-Muse and reports for News 4 at 11.
