Leland P. Cowan is a

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National Correspondent for the CBS Evening News and a substitute anchor for CBS Sunday Morning.

Biography

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 with a double major in communications and speech communications.NBC News
/ref> He is married to Molly Palmer, a television associate producer and daughter of television news correspondent John Palmer and writer Nancy Doyle Palmer. They live in Santa Monica and have two children. Cowan was a frequent correspondent for ''

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''. Prior to joining NBC News, he was a reporter for

in the CBS NEWSPATH division. He previously worked for NBC affiliate WLWT in Cincinnati, CBS affiliate WWMT in

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, KCOY in Santa Maria, California and

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in Eureka, California.

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