Cynthia McFadden is senior legal correspondent for ABC News and has served as a substitute anchor on a number of ABC News programs. She joined ABC in 1994 and her reports for the network have also appeared on PrimeTime Live, 20/20, World News Tonight, Nightline, and Good Morning America. McFadden was previously an anchor and senior producer at the Courtroom Television Network where she anchored more than 200 trials. From 1985 to 1991 McFadden was a producer and then executive producer of Fred Friendly's Media and Society Seminars and more than thirty of her programs were broadcast on PBS. She holds a law degree from Columbia University.