NBC News has named Julia E. Ainsley homeland security correspondent following the retirement of Pete Williams.
Recently, Ainsley covered the department of justice and homeland security as a correspondent. She also served as a national security-justice reporter for NBC News Investigations.
Prior to joining NBC News, she was a criminal justice correspondent at Thomson Reuters.
She was a congressional reporter at the National Journal and interned at the Chicago Tribune.
Ainsley has a B.A. from Davidson College and a M.S. from Northwestern University.
You can congratulate Ainsley by sending her a note on Twitter.
