Ashleigh Banfield is an award-winning television journalist who has traveled the globe, covering everything from the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, the West Bank and Gaza to the crash of the Concorde in France and the Games of the 27th Olympiad in Sydney, Australia. She won Emmy Award Recognition for her coverage of the events of 9/11 at the World Trade Center in New York City, reporting live as the buildings were literally falling.
Currently, Banfield is the co-host of a daily legal news program on TruTV (formerly Court TV) called Banfield and Ford: Courtside and the creator, co-producer and host of a prime time program called Disorder In The Court, which is the highest rated program currently on the network. Her work on TruTV has earned her a prestigious Gracie Allen Award as well as a 2007 Telly award.
