Scott Pelley

Scott Pelley
Pelley at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York
Born	Scott Cameron Pelley (1957-07-28) July 28, 1957 (age 59) San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Education	Coronado High School (Lubbock, Texas)
Alma mater	Texas Tech University
Occupation	Journalist
Years active	1975–present
Notable credit(s)	60 Minutes CBS Evening News
Spouse(s)	Jane Boone Pelley (m. 1983)
Children	Reece Pelley, Blair Pelley

Scott Cameron Pelley (born July 28, 1957) is an American television reporter.

Pelley has been the Anchor and Managing Editor of the CBS Evening News since 2011, and has been a Correspondent for the CBS News Magazine, 60 Minutes since 2004. He served as a Correspondent on 60 Minutes II from 1999 to 2004, and as the CBS News Chief White House Correspondent from 1997 to 1999.

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Pelley grew up in Lubbock, where he graduated from Coronado High School and obtained his first job in journalism at the age of 15 as a copyboy for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Staying close to home, he majored in journalism at Texas Tech University, in Lubbock.

Pelley began his career as a broadcast journalist at Lubbock's KSEL-TV in 1975. He moved on to KXAS-TV in Fort Worth in 1978, and to WFAA-TV in Dallas in 1982, remaining there for seven years. In 1985, Pelley's reporting on Guatemalan refugees living in remote jungles of Mexico caught the attention of executives at CBS News (though WFAA was an ABC affiliate), and four years later, Pelley moved to the CBS network.

Pelley's CBS career started in New York City in 1989. Later, he returned to Dallas to cover national affairs from the CBS bureau. Pelley covered the 1990/91 Gulf war, reporting from Baghdad and traveling with the XVIII Airborne Corps in its assault on Iraq and Kuwait. He was assigned to cover the 1992 presidential campaigns of Ross Perot and Bill Clinton, and also reported on such major events as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Branch Davidian siege near Waco, Texas, and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.