Michelle Miller

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Michelle Miller is a correspondent for CBS News and is the wife of former New Orleans mayor, Marc Morial. She has periodically served as a substitute anchor on CBS News Up to the Minute.

Michelle Miller was born in Los Angeles, California. In 1989, she earned a journalism degree from Howard University.

In 1988, Miller served as an intern at Nightline and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. From 1989 to 1990, she wrote for the Santa Bay and Valley editions of the Los Angeles Times. From 1990 to 1993, she worked for Orange County Newschannel in Santa Ana, California. From 1993 to 1994, she anchored at WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina.

From 1994 to 2003, Miller lived in New Orleans and worked as a reporter and anchor for WWL-TV. During most of that time, her husband, Marc Morial, served as the city's mayor. In 1997, she earned a master's degree in urban studies from the University of New Orleans. From 1998 to 2001, Miller taught communications and broadcast journalism at Dillard University. In a 2005 interview with CBS News, Miller said that she had fond memories of her nine years in New Orleans. Although she was living in New York at the time of that 2005 interview, Miller said that she continued to regard New Orleans as her home.

Miller went on to serve as reporter and anchor for BET Nightly News In 2003, she served as freelance reporter for the weekend edition of the CBS Evening News and a freelance anchor for CBS News Up to the Minute before becoming a CBS News correspondent, based in New York.

Michelle Miller and her husband have a son, who was born in 2002.