Jennifer Pierce

Jennifer Pierce is an Emmy-award-winning reporter for News 9 and has been on staff since 2017. While most days, she covers crime in the metro and court cases, she enjoys telling the stories of Native Americans in Oklahoma. Jennifer is a proud member of the Choctaw Nation. She takes pride in the success her tribe and the many other tribes in Oklahoma have gained in recent years. She is a member of the Indigenous Journalists Association.

Jennifer started her reporting career in Lawton, Oklahoma at KSWO in 2000 after graduating from the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. There she covered stories from City Hall, Fort Sill and Altus Air Force Base. From Lawton, Jennifer went up the turnpike to Tulsa to be a crime reporter at Fox 23. Jennifer was one of the original staff when KOKI launched its 9 p.m. news on Super Bowl Sunday in 2001. Jennifer was thrilled to return to Oklahoma City in 2003 to work for News 9 as a general assignment reporter and anchored the weekend morning show from 2007 to 2012. Jennifer has taken a couple news breaks to stay home with her three children when they were young and worked in public relations managing Chickasaw Nation casino clients.

A few fun facts about Jennifer – she does not have a middle name (seriously!) and was born in Laramie, Wyoming. She has also lived in Montana and Idaho before her family moved to Oklahoma when she was a child.