| Sally-Ann Roberts | |
| Birth Name: | Sally-Ann Roberts |
| Birth Date: | 14 February 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Chandler, Arizona, US |
| Alma Mater: | University of Southern Mississippi |
| Occupation: | News anchor |
| Years Active: | 1977–2018 |
| Children: | 1 |
| Parents: | Lawrence E. Roberts (father) |
| Relatives: | Robin René Roberts (sister) |
Sally-Ann Roberts is an American broadcaster. She worked for 40 years in news television before retiring in 2018.
Sally-Ann Roberts was born in Chandler, Arizona, the daughter of Lawrence and Lucimarian Roberts. Her father was a colonel in the Air Force and was one of the Tuskegee Airmen.[1] She graduated in 1974 from the University of Southern Mississippi.
Roberts was working every other weekend at a Mississippi TV station, WDAM, when she was recruited for WWL-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana by its longtime assistant general manager and news director Phil Johnson on the recommendation of anchor Angela Hill.[2] She was hired as a member of the news team at WWL on March 31, 1977, and co-anchored the Eyewitness Morning News with Eric Paulsen.[1] She remained with the station until she retired in 2018.[3]
She is the author of Going Live: An Anchorwoman Reports Good News.[4] With a foreword by her sister Robin Roberts, and photographs by her news colleague Eric Paulsen, Roberts authored an inspirational book, Your Power is On!: A Little Book of Hope.
In addition to these non-fiction books, Roberts authored the novel Angel Vision. She gives motivational speeches around the United States.
She is the older sister of Robin Roberts, a co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America.[5] [6]