Renee Chenault-Fattah (born October 12, 1957) is the co-anchor of the weekday edition of NBC 10 News at 11 p.m. in Philadelphia. She is married to U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah of the 2nd Congressional District of Pennsylvania.

Chenault-Fattah majored in political science at Johns Hopkins University and went on to the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She worked at Hughes Hubbard & Reed, a law firm in New York, and then clerked for Judge Damon Keith of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals before beginning her media career, earning a journalism degree at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.

She joined the station in 1991, and served as an anchor and a reporter. After a few years anchoring the now-defunct noon broadcast with Tim Lake, she was promoted to the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news in March 1995. In 2003, Lake joined Chenault as co-anchor at 4 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m., after she had spent 8 years co-anchoring newscasts at 6 and 11 with first, Ken Matz, then with Larry Mendte (Chenault and Mendte first were together at 11).

Chenault is one of several minority females to have anchored newscasts in Philadelphia. The others include former KYW-TV Eyewitness News anchors Beverly Williams, and Alycia Lane and WPVI-TV Action News anchor Lisa Thomas-Laury. Chenault and KYW's Susan Barnett are also the only female news co-anchors at 6 & 11 since Jim Gardner at WPVI-TV anchors on his own. They both also have one thing in common: they have co-anchored newscasts with Larry Mendte.

For nearly 10 years, until Alycia Lane arrived at KYW-TV, Chenault was the only female news anchor in Philadelphia weeknights at 6 and 11.

He was named to the PoliticsPA list of "Sy Snyder's Power 50" list of influential individuals in Pennsylvania politics in 2002.^[1] She was also named to the PoliticsPA list of "Pennsylvania's Most Politically Powerful Women"^[2]

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