Laura Jarrett Net Worth 2023, Age, Husband, Children, Height, Family, Parents, Salary

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Name	Laura Jarrett
Net Worth	$5 million
Occupation	Attorney, Reporter
Age	39 years
Height	1.68m

Laura Jarrett net worth

Laura Jarrett is an American attorney and reporter. She is best known as a reporter for CNN before switching to NBC as a senior legal correspondent.

Laura is also famous as the daughter of Valerie Jarrett. Her mother is a businesswoman and former government official who currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Obama Foundation.

She previously served as the senior advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama and assistant to the president for public engagement and intergovernmental affairs from 2009 to 2017. Before that, she served as a co-chair of the Obama–Biden Transition Project. She has been the CEO of the Obama Foundation since October 2021.

Early life

Laura Jarrett was born on October 29, 1983 (age 39 years) in the United States. She is the daughter of Valerie Jarrett (mother) and William Jarrett (father).

Her mother Valerie was born in Shiraz, Iran, during the Shah’s rule, to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara T. Bowman. Her father, a pathologist and geneticist, worked at a hospital in Shiraz in 1956. When she was five years old, the family moved to London for a year, later moving to Chicago in 1963.

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Her parents are of African-American and European descent. On the television series Finding Your Roots, DNA testing indicated that Jarrett is of 49% European, 46% African, and 5% Native American descent.

Among her European roots, she was found to have French and Scottish ancestry. One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Robert Robinson Taylor, was the first accredited African-American architect, and the first African-American student enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Valerie’s father once told her that her great-grandfather was Jewish. Her maternal grandfather, Robert Rochon Taylor, was chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority in the 1940s.

As a child, Jarrett spoke Persian, French, and English. In 1966, her mother was one of four child advocates who created the Erikson Institute. The institute was established to provide collective knowledge in child development for teachers and other professionals working with young children.

Jarrett graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School in 1974, and earned a B.A. in psychology from Stanford University in 1978 and a Jur is Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981. On May 21, 2016, she received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

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Husband

Laura Jarrett is currently married to her husband Tony Balkissoon, they had their wedding in 2012. Her husband is a lawyer and the son of politician Bas Balkissoon. Her husband was born in 1985 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. The couple have two children. As of April 2023, Laura Jarrett and her husband Tony Balkissoon are still married and living a happy life with their children, James and June.