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Jack Ford is an American television news personality specializing in legal commentary. He has spent over two decades in front of the TV camera as a host and presenter of numerous information and entertainment programs.
Raised by a single parent, Ford grew up inPoint Pleasant Beach and attendedPoint Pleasant Beach High School. He graduated fromYale University, where he played football. He also earned aJuris Doctor degree fromFordham University School of Law.[1][2] He subsequently spent three years as a prosecutor in New Jersey, before beginning his own private practice as a lawyer. He also served as anadjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School.
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In 1984, Ford was hired byWCBS-TV as its legal commentator and joinedCourtroom Television Network upon its launch on July 1, 1991. He moved toNBC News in 1994 as the chief legal correspondent and succeededMike Schneider as the co-anchor withGiselle Fernandez of the network's morning showWeekend Today in May 1995. He continued to host the show with interim co-anchorAnn Curry in 1996,Jodi Applegate from 1996 to April 1999, and withSoledad O'Brien from April to July 1999. That year he was named "Sexiest News Anchor" byPeople magazine.
In September 1999, Ford joinedABC News and became a correspondent for20/20 andGood Morning America. On December 31, 1999, he was inTimes Square as part ofABC 2000 Today, the network's 23-hour worldwide coverage of theMillennium, hosted byPeter Jennings. During ABC's coverage of the millennium, both he andDick Clark counted down the final minutes until 2000 arrived in Times Square. Ford was the moderator ofESPN'sThe Sports Reporters from 2002 to 2003 and co-hosted the short-lived syndicated talk showLiving It Up! With Ali & Jack, which premiered on September 15, 2003. Produced at theCBS Broadcast Center in New York, the program, with "Ali", (actressAlexandra "Ali" Wentworth), started with high ratings, but quickly lost ground and terminated production after seven months, although repeats continued for another four months, to August 2004.
In June 2004, Ford returned to Court TV (nowtruTV) and on January 17, 2006, began co-hosting, withAshleigh Banfield the two-hour daily afternoon programBanfield & Ford: Courtside. Since 2009 he has been a CBS News Legal Analyst. He has been a Visiting Lecturer at Yale University since 2007, teaching an undergraduate seminar titled "Trials of the Century," a course which he also taught atNew York University in 2019.
Since 2018, he has served as a college football analyst forESPN, calling Ivy League football games.[3]
He is the author of "The Osiris Alliance" (2009), a suspense novel about nuclear smuggling.
He has received twoEmmy Awards, aPeabody Award, anAmerican Radio and Television Award, aNational Headliner Award, and theMarch of Dimes FDR Award.
Ford had been a resident ofInterlaken, New Jersey[4] and moved toSpring Lake, where he lives with his wife and two children. He was a contestant on the original version ofJeopardy! withArt Fleming, winning three games.[1]
Jack Ford was an all-county football quarterback at Point Pleasant Beach High School, won a scholarship to Yale University and then helped to finance his tuition at the Fordham University School of Law with the winnings from appearances on the television quiz showJeopardy.
John R. Ford, a lawyer for Great Adventure, is also a legal commentator for WCBS-TV (Channel 2) in New York.... Mr. Ford, who grew up in Point Pleasant Beach, now lives in Interlaken, near Asbury Park.