{{Short description|American television personality}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2014}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2009}} {{Infobox person | name = Griff Jenkins | image = Griff Jenkins (2010).jpg | caption = Jenkins in 2010 | birth_name = William Griffin Jenkins | birth_date = {{birth-date and age|December 15, 1970}} | birth_place = Los Angeles, California, US | alma_mater = [[University of Mississippi]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) | occupation = Broadcast journalist }}
'''William Griffin Jenkins'''<ref name="Memphis Magazine">{{cite news | url = http://www.memphismagazine.com/November-2009/Q-A-Griff-Jenkins/ | title = Q & A: Griff Jenkins | work = Memphis Magazine | first = Michael | last = Finger | date = November 2009}}</ref> (born December 15, 1970) is an American television and radio personality, reporter, and producer for [[Fox News Channel]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kurtz |first=Howard |title=Media Woo the Appalachian Tale |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071503674.html?hpid=artsliving |access-date=September 7, 2010 |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |date=July 16, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=FOX News' Griff Jenkins Banned From ACORN Bash (transcript) |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/fox-news-griff-jenkins-banned-from-acorn-bash |access-date=September 7, 2010 |newspaper=[[Fox News]] |date=June 19, 2009}}</ref><!--Fox News is a primary source, but should be good enough to establish that he's a producer there. --><ref>{{Cite news |title=Fox News Feels Wrath Of DNC Protesters |url=http://www.ketv.com/r/17310347/detail.html |access-date=September 7, 2010 |newspaper=[[KETV]] |date=August 27, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306060245/http://www.ketv.com/r/17310347/detail.html |archive-date=March 6, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Education == Jenkins graduated from the [[Memphis University School]] in 1989.<ref name="MUS">{{cite news | url = http://www.musowls.org/documents/mustoday/2007/March07.pdf | title = A Front-Row Seat to History | work = MUS Today | date = March 2007 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140725131435/http://www.musowls.org/documents/mustoday/2007/March07.pdf | archive-date = July 25, 2014 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> He earned a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] degree in English from the [[University of Mississippi]] in 1993.<ref name="MUS" /><ref name="Bio">{{cite web | url = http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/personalities/griff-jenkins/bio/ | title = Griff Jenkins bio | publisher = FoxNews.com | access-date = July 17, 2014}}</ref>
== Career == After college, Jenkins was an intern for [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] Congressman [[Don Sundquist]].<ref name="Memphis Magazine" /> In 1993, Jenkins began working at [[Salem Radio Network]] where he served as an associate producer for [[Oliver North]]'s War Stories and produced the syndicated radio program Common Sense Radio with Oliver North.<ref name="Bio" />
He currently works out of Washington, DC, for [[Fox News Channel]], having joined the network as a radio producer in 2003.<ref name="Bio"/> Jenkins worked as a producer for the [[Tony Snow]] Radio Program until Snow accepted the role of [[White House Press Secretary]] in 2006. He occasionally co-hosts ''[[Fox & Friends]]'' Weekend as a substitute, and for the vacant weekend third seat until September 10, 2025, when he was named to fill that seat, and was a frequent guest on ''[[Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld]]'', a late night news program.
== Personal life == Jenkins and his wife Kathleen reside in [[Washington, D.C.]] with their two daughters, Madeline and Mackenzie.<ref name="MUS" />
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