Full Name Leland P. Cowan Role Correspondent | Name Lee Cowan | |
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Notable credit(s) NBC Nightly News reporter(2007–2011)CBS Evening News reporter(1996–2006, 2011-present)WWMT anchor(1995–1996) Awards Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Morning Program Nominations News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast TV shows CBS News Sunday Morning, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, NBC News Decision 2010 Similar People Charles Osgood, Brian Williams, Rand Morrison, Kelly O'Donnell, Lester Holt Profiles | ||
New york holiday singers on cbs sunday morning with lee cowan
Leland P. "Lee" Cowan is the CBS News National Correspondent for the CBS Evening News and substitute anchor for CBS Sunday Morning.
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- New york holiday singers on cbs sunday morning with lee cowan
- The legacy of the Black Panthers
- Biography
- References

The legacy of the Black Panthers
Biography

Leland P "Lee" Cowan was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, a son of Leland B. Cowan, a surgical and radiation oncologist, and Constance W. Cowan. He is a 1988 graduate of the University of Washington. He is married to Molly Palmer, a television associate producer and daughter of television news correspondent John Palmer and writer Nancy Doyle Palmer. On December 23rd, 2016, he and his wife gave birth to a baby boy, Kevin Cowan. They live in Santa Monica.

Cowan was a frequent correspondent for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Prior to joining NBC News, he was a reporter for CBS News in the CBS NEWSPATH division. He previously worked for NBC affiliate WLWT in Cincinnati, CBS affiliate WWMT in Kalamazoo, Michigan and KCOY in Santa Maria, California, in addition to KIEM in Eureka, California.
