Born Julia Lynn Edwards in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1985, she is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. George Sadler Edwards and has 2 siblings, a sister and a brother. In 2009, she attended Davidson College in North Carolina and received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology, but then turned her attention towards becoming a journalist after receiving her master's degree. She then went on to attend Northwestern University receiving a Master of Science in Journalism.[citation needed]
Career
While she studied for her master's degree, Ainsley began her career working as an intern at the Chicago Tribune newspaper as a writer for its lifestyle section and managed its department section. After graduating from Northwestern University, Ainsley went on to become a congressional reporter for the National Journal, moving to Washington, D.C., and finding new opportunities in her career.[citation needed]
She then left the National Journal in 2013. She joined Thomson Reuters, working as a criminal justice correspondent and White House correspondent covering counterterrorism, immigration, and criminal justice reform from Reuters' Washington bureau.[2] She then landed her next big job at NBC News in 2017 as a national security and justice reporter covering DOJ and DHS.[3][4]
In 2019, Ainsley was promoted to correspondent and covers the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security.[5] A position she still holds to this day in 2025.[citation needed]
Personal life
Ainsley married Newman Ainsley in 2016, and the couple has two daughters. In 2019, while she was pregnant, she began to have a bout of morning sickness while she was on-air live on MSNBC, giving a report, and it forced her to step off-camera before it was later revealed that she was expecting.[6][7] In 2021, she welcomed her second child.[8]
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