| Mai Martinez | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 16, 1973 San Francisco, California |
| Residence | Chicago, Illinois |
| Education | Jacksonville State University |
| Occupation | News Anchor, Reporter |
| Years active | 2003 - Present |
| Employer | WOXR K-98 WDSI-TV WBRC-TV WBBM-TV May 2006 - Present |
Mai Martinez (born December 16, 1973) is an American television news anchor and reporter.
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A native of San Francisco, Martinez earned a bachelor's degree in 1997 from Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama.[1][2]
Martinez began her broadcasting career as a video editor at WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama, where she worked from 1997 until 2003. In 2000, she co-hosted a morning radio show on WOXR-FM in Oxford, Alabama.[3] In 2003, Martinez became a photographer, general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at WDSI-TV in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She then rejoined WBRC-TV in April 2004 as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor. While there, Martinez developed a higher level of national visibility when she spent eight weeks in Aruba covering the disappearance of Natalee Holloway.[1]
In May 2006, Martinez was hired by WBBM-TV in Chicago as a general assignment reporter. On September 20, 2007, she was promoted to be a weekend news anchor at the station.
Martinez is half Cuban and half Vietnamese.[1] She is single and lives in the Uptown neighborhood on Chicago's North Side.[4]