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Emmy-Award-winning journalist Sheila Stainback joined Court TV as a news anchor in February, 2000. She examines the day's top crime and justice news headlines in Newsbreak, every hour on the half hour from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m./ET.

Stainback has had a distinguished career in broadcast journalism. She joined the crime and justice network from an anchor position at the Fox News Channel. Previously, Stainback was a substitute host for Geraldo Rivera on CNBC's Rivera Live and host of On Trial, a weekly talk show on legal issues.

During eight years at WPIX in New York, Stainback was awarded an Emmy for anchoring the Outstanding Newscast of 1991, as well as the American Women in Radio and Television award for public affairs in 1992 for her show, "Women and Passover." In addition, Stainback has been a reporter at WNBC in New York, WLS in Chicago, WPLG in Miami, and WBAL in Baltimore, where she also worked as an anchor.

Stainback, who received a B.A. from Fordham University, was a member of Fordham's Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2000. She attended Stanford University on a Professional Journalism Fellowship, and received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Stainback is an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University.