Dawndy Mercer Plank Biography

Dawndy Mercer Plank an American journalist working as an anchor and reporter for WIS News 10′s afternoon and evening newscasts.

Dawndy Mercer Plank Age

Plank lage and date of birth are publicly unavailable, this section will be updated as soon as this information is available.

Dawndy Mercer Plank Career

Dawndy being a member of Shandon Baptist Church and as well frequent speaker at churches across the state. She as well serves on the board of directors of the Oliver Gospel Mission. She has also been a long-time member in the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Sister Study on Breast Cancer.

She has been involved in a number of healthy-living initiatives, including working on the committee for Heart & Sole, a women-only run and walk to combat heart disease. She is as well a marathon and triathlon who is dedicated on helping others live healthy lives. She as well advocates for plant-based nutrition.

She started off her television career in 1989, after she relocated from Indianapolis, Indiana to Green Bay, Wisconsin to work as a reporter for WBAY TV. She then relocated to South Carolina in 1992 to co-host WIS News Sunrise before being elevated to anchor the evening shows.

Dawndy then moved to Houston, Texas in 1996 and started acting in commercials, print ads, and industrial films. She as well worked at KNWS News, KTRK TV, and KSBJ Christian Radio in Houston and also hosting a horse and travel show. In 2001, she got back to WIS Television.

Dawndy Mercer Plank Height and Weight

Mercer stands tall at an average height and has an average height

Dawndy Mercer Plank Family

Mercer information about her family are publicly unavailable, this section will be updated as soon as this information is available.

Dawndy Mercer Plank Husband

Mercer is married to Craig Plank and together they have three stepchildren.

Dawndy Mercer Plank Net Worth

Mercer has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million – $5 Million

Dawndy Mercer Plank Salary

Mercer earns an estimated annual salary ranging between $ 45,000 – $ 110,500.

Dawndy Mercer Awards

Dawndy has earned a number of awards honors, including the Girl Scouts of South Carolina’s Woman of Distinction award. She as well got to be named a 2016 SCOPY Media Champion by the American College of Gastroenterology. She then got honored into the Greenfield Central School Foundation Alumni Hall of Fame in 2016 for her many roles since graduating from high school.

She as well got to be named the TV Anchor in 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2003 by Columbia Metropolitan Magazine.She got to be named Sexiest News Personality in 2011 by the Free Times Newspaper, and also Best Anchor Personality in 2010, 2009, 2008, 2005, 2004, 1995, and 1994.

She as well got honored with the Verizon 2012 Hopeline Hero Award, which went to SisterCare, a shelter for battered women and their children. She was a nominee for the Palmetto Center for Women’s Tribute to Women in Industry in 2011, an award given to women whose extraordinary achievements distinguish them as business and community leaders and role models.

Her account of on how the deaf children’s lives changed following cochlear implants earned her a second-place award from the Associated Press in the Medical/Health category in 2009. She as well earned the Media Fitness Award from the South Carolina Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness in 2002.

She took part in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games as a torchbearer. In 2003, she got honored with a Southeast Regional Emmy Award for Best Newscast. She as well earned the South Carolina Broadcasters Association Personality of the Year Award in 1994, as well as the National Journalism Award for Best Television Coverage of Leukemia the following year.

Dawndy Mercer Plank Education

Plank enrolled and later earned a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, in 1989, and later at Washington Center she had her internship program in Washington, D.C.