{{short description|American model and news reporter (born 1962)}} '''Shelly Leah Jamison''' aka Shelly Jamison (born {{birth date and age|1962|07|10|df=yes}}<ref>''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.</ref> is a former television news reporter, and current public official, from Phoenix, who appeared as a ''Playboy'' magazine cover model<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wolfgangs.com/vintage-magazines/playboy/vintage-magazine/OMS24072.html|title = Playboy | July 1989 at Wolfgang's}}</ref> and the sideline reporter on the 1989–1990 souped-up roller derby TV series ''RollerGames''.
Jamison majored in broadcast journalism at Arizona State University. She worked as a news producer, reporter and occasional anchor on KTSP-TV (the current-day KSAZ-TV) in Phoenix, until she appeared clothed on the cover and nude inside the July 1989 issue of ''Playboy'' magazine.<ref name=USAToday>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071001031751/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/55922847.html?dids=55922847:55922847&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT USA Today article about Jamison's Playboy appearance], by Matt Roush, Life section, p. 03.D, May 22, 1989, ''USA Today''</ref> In the accompanying article, she predicted that she would most likely be fired from KTSP. She rationalized that her pay for the appearance (over US$100,000) was more than five years' pay at the station: she did leave her job at the station after the magazine appearance.<ref>"`Nudie' TV news reporter quits", ''Chicago Sun-Times'', May 22, 1989.</ref>
She was hired as a sideline reporter for ''RollerGames'', a syndicated roller derby series aired during the 1989–90 television season,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/139964032/|title = St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri on October 8, 1989 · p. 75| date=8 October 1989 }}</ref> after producers David Sams and Michael Miller saw her picture in a ''USA Today'' story about the controversial ''Playboy'' appearance.<ref name=Webb>[http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-08-30/news/on-the-rink-of-a-vervous-breakdown/full "On the Rink of A Vervous Breakdown"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930152251/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-08-30/news/on-the-rink-of-a-vervous-breakdown/full |date=2007-09-30 }}, By Dewey Webb, ''Phoenix New Times'', August 30, 1989. Retrieved March 9, 2007.</ref>
She joined the Phoenix Fire Department in 1998. She is a member of FEMA's Arizona Task Force One (AZ-TF1) and has deployed to numerous national disaster situations, becoming deputy fire chief.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.phoenix.gov/fire/about-us/executive-staff/assistant-chief-shelly-jamison |title=Fire Executive Staff |website=www.phoenix.gov |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519091938/https://www.phoenix.gov/fire/about-us/executive-staff/assistant-chief-shelly-jamison |archive-date=2021-05-19}} </ref> Her broadcasting background has led her to become a department spokesperson.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.12news.com/article/news/health/phoenix-fire-department-chief-says-she-has-breast-cancer/75-4aacdbb2-7394-4d1a-9899-82a45a77b670|title = Phoenix Fire Department chief says she has breast cancer| date=11 December 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Doing_What_Matters_-_Deputy_Fire_Chief_Shelly_Jamison|title=Doing What Matters – Deputy Fire Chief Shelly Jamison|date=6 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Z5aDuKjWlBw| archive-date = 2021-12-11| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5aDuKjWlBw| title = Health Futures – Taking Stock In You with Host Bob Roth & Guest Shelly Jamison & Steve Wagner | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> She retired from the role in December 2023. <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/phoenixfiredepartment/reel/C1cazwmLdL7/| title=Shelly Jamison retires |website=Phoenix fire department on Instagram |date=29 December 2023 |access-date=5 October 2025}}</ref> She is married and has a child.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Marilyn Hawkes |url=https://www.phoenixmag.com/2016/07/01/valley-tv-stars-where-are-they-now/ |title=Valley TV Stars: Where Are They Now? Shelly Jamison |website=phoenixmag.com |date=1 July 2016 |access-date=5 October 2025}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} * [https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1990-02-21/news/junior-samples/full "Junior Samples"], Restaurant review by Shelly Jamison, ''Phoenix New Times'', February 21, 1990. Retrieved March 9, 2007.
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