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Mai Martinez (born circa 1974) is an American television news anchor and reporter.

Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Professional career 3 Personal 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Early life and education

A native of San Francisco, Martinez earned a bachelor's degree in 1997 from Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama.^[1][2]

[edit] Professional career

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.

[edit] Personal

Martinez is half Cuban and half Vietnamese.^[1] She is single and lives in the Uptown neighborhood on Chicago's North Side.^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• WBBM-TV Profile