Faith Jenkins (b. 1977)
Alias:
Faith Lattimore
Judge Faith Jenkins
Birthplace:
Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Born:
September 21, 1977
Faith Elizabeth Lattimore (née Jenkins; born September 21, 1977) is an American attorney, legal commentator and media personality. She started her legal career in the New York City office of Sidley Austin. After five years as a litigator, she was an Assistant District Attorney, prosecuting criminals at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. On March 11, 2014, she joined MSNBC as a legal analyst. Jenkins has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel and Fox Business Channel as a legal analyst, on shows including Fox & Friends, The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity, Politics Nation with Rev. Al Sharpton, Studio B with Shepard Smith, Happening Now, Lou Dobbs Forum, Your World with Neil Cavuto, and Willis Report, as well as truTV's In Session. She has also contributed opinion editorials addressing current events in the New York Daily News. On May 29, 2014, it was announced that she would headline as a judge on daytime TV show Judge Faith, a "nationally syndicated arbitration-based court" TV series which premiered September 22, 2014 and ended production in 2018. She also hosted a true crime documentary series entitled Justice By Any Means, which premiered on December 7, 2015, on TV One. Starting in 2022, she is the host of Oxygen's true crime series, Killer Relationship with Faith Jenkins. As of the 2020–21 season, Jenkins has taken over for Judge Lynn Toler as the presiding judge on Divorce Court. She will be leaving the show in September 2022 to be replaced by Star Jones. She married singer Kenny Lattimore in 2020.