Kris Pickel Biography
Kris Pickel is an American award-winning journalist and anchor currently serving as a director of content development and media engagement a JComm. Previously, she served as a news anchor and reporter for Arizona’s Family TV news stations in Phoenix, Arizona.
Kris Pickel Education
Pickel began her career as a college intern and has since worked almost every job a newsroom has to offer. However, she has not shared with the public about her education.
Kris Pickel Age and Birthday
How old is Kris? Pickel is 56 years old as of 2025. She was born on November 13, 1968, in Sacramento, California, United States of America. She celebrates her birthday on November 13th, every year. READ: Ashley Gann
Kris Pickel Nationality and Ethnicity
Kris holds American nationality and citizenship by birth. She was born and raised in Sacramento, California, United States. She belongs to the White-American ethnicity/heritage/ancestry.
Kris Pickel Height
How tall is Kris? She stands at an average height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m)
Kris Pickel Family
Pickel was born and raised in Sacramento, California the United States of America. However, details regarding her parents including her mother and father are currently under review. She grew up alongside her sisters. She has made it an annual tradition to attend Christmas with her husband, children, parents, and sisters and rarely misses a year.
Kris Pickel Husband
Pickel is married to her husband Carl Lemon, who is a videographer and photographer. The couple was engaged for three years before marrying in 1999. The family currently resides in Arizona with their children. RELATED: Scottie Nell Hughes
When Pickel moved to Reno, Nevada, to work at a local news station, she met her husband, Carl Lemon who worked as a videographer for the station it wasn’t until after he moved away and they were still in contact, that it dawned on him — they were meant for each other.
Kris Pickel Children
Pickel and her husband Carl Lemon are the parents of two adorable sons Clark, now 17, and Bruce, 14 as of 2020. The family also likes to take visiting relatives on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, and the boys are members of the Cleveland Natural History Museum.
Kris Pickel Salary
Pickel who anchors the evening news on CBS 5 News earns an estimated annual salary of $57,182.
Kris Pickel Net Worth
Kris is an American award-winning veteran journalist, news anchor, and reporter with an estimated net worth of about $1 million. RELATED: Michelle Kosinski
Kris Pickel JComm
Kris currently serves as a director of content development and media engagement a JComm. She is an award-winning journalist who is the former anchor of the evening news on CBS 5 News in Arizona. She joined veteran Valley broadcaster Sean McLaughlin on the anchor desk for CBS 5’s evening newscasts in June 2015. The viewers of CBS 5 News have been asking about Pickel as she has not seen on the channel lately. However, we are doing follow-ups and we will update you as soon as possible.
Talking about her career, Pickel started working as an intern at a news station in Sacramento. She edited multiple newscasts, which made her way to a career in reporting for her. Her first job was as a producer and weekend news anchor in Grand Junction, Colorado.
She then moved from Colorado to Reno, Nevada, and this is where she met her future husband. She served for ten years in Tucson, Arizona, as an anchor for KOLD-TV and also spent some time working in Sacramento, California, before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked at WKYC-TV for over 12 years.
Currently, she is a news anchor at CBS 5 KPHO in Phoenix, Arizona, and has gathered quite a decent following since her debut. Since when she began her career in the early 90s, Pickel has done everything in the news industry from reporting and editing to working as an anchor, and producer as well as manning the assignment desk.
