Camille Edwards joined NBC5 in October 2003, as News Director.

Before joining NBC5, she was the assistant news director at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, an ABC O&O television station. Prior to Philadelphia, Camille worked for at WLS-TV in Chicago for over four and one half years. She started as a weekend producer and was the Executive Producer of the 4:30pm and 6pm news shows when she left.

Camille started her career as a reporter in Toledo, Ohio. She made the jump to producing while in Toledo. She then moved to Baltimore and was the 6pm producer at WBAL-TV. She moved to Chicago in 1993 as a weekend producer at CBS O&O WBBM-TV.

She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and a member and former Vice President of Broadcast for NABJ-Chicago. She is also a member of RTNDA, NAACP, Chicago Urban League, Chicago Economic Club and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

Camille is a Kizzy Award recipient, scholarship winner for the RTNDA's Management Seminar for News Directors, and the recipient of the Excellence in Communication Award from the Chicago Public Schools. She was also awarded the Excellence in Broadcasting by the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters.

She was born in Delaware but spent much of her childhood in suburban Detroit. She is a 1988 graduate of University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, with a degree in Communications and minor in English.

She volunteers her time mentoring young people.