Kimberly Dozier

Kimberly Dozier is a CBS News correspondent who has worked primarily in Baghdad since August 2003. She has covered Iraq and the Middle East extensively for the CBS Evening News, The Early Show, and CBS Radio News.

On Memorial Day in 2006, while reporting a story in Baghdad about American soldiers working with Iraqi security forces, Dozier, cameraman Paul Douglas, and soundman James Brolan were the victims of a car bombing. Douglas and Brolan were killed, as were the U.S. Army captain they were following and his Iraqi translator. Dozier was seriously wounded, but recovered completely after multiple surgeries and months of physiotherapy.

Prior to that, she was the correspondent/bureau chief for WCBS-TV New York's Middle East bureau in Jerusalem, where she covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the war in Iraq. She has reported on the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the crisis and refugee exodus in the Balkans, Vladimir Putin's election, the death of Princess Diana, Northern Ireland's peace process, and the Khobar barracks bombing in Dhahran. In addition to broadcast journalism, Dozier has written for the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She has also reported for the Energy Daily, New Technology Week, and Environment Week, for which she covered congressional policy and industry regulation.

In 2008, Dozier won a Peabody Award for her CBS Sunday Morning piece about two women veterans who lost limbs in Iraq. She is also the recipient of three American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) Gracie Awards, as well as the organization's Grand Gracie Award in 2007 for her body of work in Iraq. Dozier and ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff were honored with the 2007 Radio and Television News Directors Association and Foundation's Leonard Zeidenberg First Amendment Award. She was honored by the Overseas Press Club in 2007 and spoke on behalf of journalists who have been killed and injured in Iraq. And Dozier received the Association for Women in Communication's 2007 Helen Duhamel Achievement Award for media professionals who have made significant achievements in their professions while overcoming extreme hardships or challenges and who have used their First Amendment rights to give back to society.

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Dozier graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College in 1987 with a bachelor's degree and from the University of Virginia in 1993 with a master's degree in foreign affairs, Middle East. Currently, she has a home in Jerusalem and is on temporary assignment in Washington, D.C.