Sandra Kaye Smith (born on September 22, 1980) is a business and news reporter currently serving as co-anchor of '' America Reports'' on the

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(FNC) in New York City. She is originally from Wheaton, Illinois, and ran track and field while an undergraduate at Louisiana State University.

Early life

Sandra Smith is a native of Wheaton, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. Smith graduated from Wheaton Warrenville South High School in 1998. She earned three letters in cross country and two letters in track at Wheaton Warrenville South, where she was the cross country team captain as a senior. She was an Illinois High School Association state qualifier, earned All-DuPage Valley Conference honors, and was an Academic All-Conference selection.

College

Smith attended Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal for a time before transferring to Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge for the 2002 school year. She ran the

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at various LSU and LSU Alumni track-and-field events. Smith graduated from LSU, having taken some business classes and minored in speech. Smith's father was a floor trader at Chicago's Mercantile Exchange and many of Sandra's relatives worked in Chicago's financial district.

Career

Sandra Smith began her business career as a research associate at Aegis Capital Group. There, she assisted in the research and analysis of retail stocks, prepared weekly stock newsletters to clients, and identified investment opportunities. Her next employment was as a trader at Hermitage Capital Corporation in New York City, where she executed U.S. equities and options orders, conducted portfolio analysis, and prepared commission reports. From there, Smith moved on to be the director of institutional sales and trading at Terra Nova Institutional in Chicago, where she handled investment management and hedge fund accounts. She also assisted in the development of program trading models for existing and prospective clients. She broke into television as an on-air reporter for Bloomberg Television. In this role, she covered U.S. equities and derivatives markets, contributed to breaking news and analysis, and reported for Bloomberg Press. She joined Fox Business as a reporter in October 2007, with the launch of the network, and can be seen on many FBN shows. Beginning in early October 2009, she was a regular on Don Imus' show, '' Imus in the Morning''. She was a frequent guest on ''Fox Business Happy Hour'' and has appeared as a guest on the Fox News late-night satire program '' Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld''.Fox Business News Biography. FOX Business.
Retrieved 21 Nov. 2009 In April 2014, Smith began co-hosting '' Outnumbered'' on the

featuring four Fox News female commentators and one rotating male guest discussing current news and cultural topics. Previously, Smith served as co-anchor of the Fox News morning news program, '' America's Newsroom''. She currently serves as co-anchor with John Roberts of Fox News '' America Reports'' on weekdays beginning at 1PM ET. The program involves discussions of prominent issues, as well as afternoon headlines, with experts and newsmakers.�
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Personal life

She is married to John Conolly.

References

External links

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