Michelle Millman

Whether it’s out on the streets reporting or sitting behind the anchor desk Saturday mornings, Michelle Millman can’t imagine doing anything else.

She graduated from the University of Washington with a communications degree and found her first television job in Idaho. There, she did everything from anchoring the evening news to running out and videotaping a breaking news story. One of her favorite Idaho memories is skydiving over beautiful Coeur d’Alene. Although she loved it, she hasn't jumped from a plane since.

After three years in Idaho and spending a few years anchoring in Yakima, Michelle returned to Seattle in 1995 and landed at KIRO 7 where she was an intern just six years earlier.

Since 2001, Michelle has been an integral part of the Emmy award-winning morning news team at KIRO and loves working with what she calls her "morning news family."

Michelle covers a wide range of stories: she could be in hip waders in a flooding river one day, at Boeing Field awaiting a presidential visit the next and covering a rescue operation from Mt. Rainier the day after that!

An avid sports fan, Michelle was thrilled KIRO asked her to cover the Rose Bowl for the WSU-Michigan game in 1998. She also went to Detroit where she reported live every night on the Seahawks’ historic Super Bowl trip of 2006. Michelle also takes pride in her Super Bowl-winning Fantasy Football team at KIRO!

In July of 2009 Michelle was diagnosed with Stage 2b breast cancer. She underwent a double mastectomy and five months of chemotherapy, followed by seven weeks of radiation. Almost from day one after her diagnosis, Michelle felt she had a responsibility to share what she was learning and began writing about her experience. As an Ambassador for the Puget Sound affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, she speaks at a variety of events spreading the word about ending breast cancer forever.

In her remaining spare time, Michelle enjoys volunteering with Seattle Humane Society’s Tuxes and Tails and co-hosting the Miss Washington pageant. Another “tough” duty is judging the annual firefighter calendar contest for the Northwest Burn Foundation.

Michelle’s husband is a captain with the Everett Fire Department, where he’s been since 1990. (And no, they didn’t meet when she was reporting from a fire; they were high school sweethearts.) They both grew up in Renton and are thrilled to raise their two sons in the Pacific Northwest.