Deborah Norville

About

Deborah Anne Norville (born August 8, 1958) is an American television journalist and businesswoman. Norville is a former anchor of Inside Edition, a syndicated television news magazine, a position she held from March 6, 1995 to May 21, 2025. She markets and sells a line of yarns (Deborah Norville Collection) for knit and crochet enthusiasts, manufactured by Premier Yarns. Previously, she was an anchor and correspondent for CBS News and earlier co-host of Today on NBC. Her book Thank You Power was a New York Times best-seller.

Norville was born in Dalton, Georgia. She won her town’s local Junior Miss contest, a beauty contest for high school senior girls and represented Georgia in the 1976 America’s Junior Miss pageant. She did not win, but credits seeing the behind-the-scenes work of the CBS Television production team as inspiring her to switch her career goal from law to television journalism. She hosted the 1999 America’s Junior Miss contest.

Norville is a graduate of the University of Georgia. She graduated summa cum laude in three years with a perfect 4.0 grade point average, earning a BA degree in journalism from the university’s Grady College of…