Anne Elise Parks Wikipedia, Wedding, Married, Husband, Age【 Bio 】

• Anne Elise Parks is an American Broadcast Meteorologist who worked many years for CBS 11. She is currently taking a “career pause” to focus on motherhood.
• Talented and committed to her work, Parks has long been a fan of television and spent most of her younger years preparing herself for her current career path.

• Anna was born on December 4, 1988, in New Albany, Mississippi.
• She grew up on a farm, where much of her free time was spent watching storms develop—an experience that helped spark her lifelong passion for meteorology.
• She met her husband, Nicholas Steven “Nick” Pilipovich, in St. Louis, Missouri, where she was working for KTVI-TV. The couple married there in October 2015 and later settled in Fort Worth, Texas, where they lived for many years.
• Anna and Nick welcomed their first daughter, Clara, in October 2021, and their second daughter in March 2024 while living in Dallas. In June 2025, Anna announced that after nearly a decade in Texas, the family would be relocating north to St. Louis, closing their chapter in the Lone Star State.
• Since arriving in 2017, Dallas had been their home through career milestones, the birth of their two daughters, and many deep community ties. In Oak Cliff, they bought their Texas home, weathered major storms, endured the COVID-19 pandemic, and created countless memories.

• After falling in love with storytelling and television while on the journalism team at her high school, Parks decided to attend Mississippi State University where she graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in GeoScience.
• Anne Elise graduated summa-cum-laude from Mississippi State University and was crowned Homecoming Queen on October 23, 2010.
• Her older sister Sarah Beth Parks was also Mississippi State University’s Homecoming Queen in 2006.
• While at Mississippi State, Parks was chosen to take part in the Great Plains Storm Chase by the university’s meteorology department. As part of the team of 8 students and 2 professors, Anna spent 16 days travelling to 9 states across the country in a bid to gain valuable field experience.

• Anna covered various tornadoes and other extreme weather conditions while working at WTWO/WAWV News in Terre Haute, Indiana, before moving to St. Louis, Missouri, where she spent three years at FOX 2 News KTVI as both a meteorologist and weekend morning anchor. During her time there, she was named “Best TV Meteorologist” by St. Louis Magazine in 2016.
• In 2017, Anna joined CBS 11 DFW (KTVT) as the weekend evening meteorologist and later transitioned to a morning role. Upon her arrival, the station’s Vice President, Andrea Parquet-Taylor, praised her Midwest storm experience, noting, “Her experience with storms in the Midwest will lend itself well to forecasting here in North Texas.”
• On September 9, 2022, Anna announced she was “pressing the pause button and stepping away from my career in local news” to prioritize her family after the birth of her first daughter, Clara.
• Beyond meteorology, Anna takes on reporting and interviewing opportunities and has spoken with figures such as Taylor Swift, Faith Hill, and Robin Roberts. She reported live from the red carpet at the 2013 CMA Awards, a moment she has described as a career highlight.
• Anna’s career spans multiple markets and roles — from storm coverage and traffic reporting to anchoring and feature reporting, demonstrating both storm-hardened forecasting skills and versatility as a broadcast journalist.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

• Parks is passionate about giving back and doing charity work and she works with groups such as the “Humane Society” and the “Boys and Girls Club.” She also travels from school to school talking about Severe Weather Preparedness with children and giving out useful tips in the case of a weather related emergency.
• A major fan of the Cardinals baseball team, she regularly attended matches at the Busch Stadium when she worked in St Louis, Missouri.
• Anna took part in various pageants when she was younger and is a former Miss Mississippi Teen USA, winning the competition in the year 2007, and earning the Miss Congeniality award.