Shelly Jamison

{{short description|American model and news reporter (born 1962)}}

Shelly Leah Jamison aka Shelly Jamison (born {{birth date and age|1962|07|10|df=yes}}U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010. is a former television news reporter, and current public official, from Phoenix, who appeared as a Playboy magazine cover model{{Cite web|url=https://www.wolfgangs.com/vintage-magazines/playboy/vintage-magazine/OMS24072.html|title = Playboy | July 1989 at Wolfgang's}} and the sideline reporter on the 1989–1990 souped-up roller derby TV series RollerGames.

Jamison majored in broadcast journalism at Arizona State University. She worked as a news producer, reporter and occasional anchor on KTSP-TV (the current-day KSAZ-TV) in Phoenix, until she appeared clothed on the cover and nude inside the July 1989 issue of Playboy magazine.[https://web.archive.org/web/20071001031751/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/55922847.html?dids=55922847:55922847&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT USA Today article about Jamison's Playboy appearance], by Matt Roush, Life section, p. 03.D, May 22, 1989, USA Today

In the accompanying article, she predicted that she would most likely be fired from KTSP. She rationalized that her pay for the appearance (over US$100,000) was more than five years' pay at the station: she did leave her job at the station after the magazine appearance."`Nudie' TV news reporter quits", Chicago Sun-Times, May 22, 1989.

She was hired as a sideline reporter for RollerGames, a syndicated roller derby series aired during the 1989–90 television season,{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/139964032/|title = St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri on October 8, 1989 · p. 75| date=8 October 1989 }} after producers David Sams and Michael Miller saw her picture in a USA Today story about the controversial Playboy appearance.[http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-08-30/news/on-the-rink-of-a-vervous-breakdown/full "On the Rink of A Vervous Breakdown"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930152251/http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-08-30/news/on-the-rink-of-a-vervous-breakdown/full |date=2007-09-30 }}, By Dewey Webb, Phoenix New Times, August 30, 1989. Retrieved March 9, 2007.

She joined the Phoenix Fire Department in 1998. She is a member of FEMA's Arizona Task Force One (AZ-TF1) and has deployed to numerous national disaster situations, becoming deputy fire chief.{{cite web |url=https://www.phoenix.gov/fire/about-us/executive-staff/assistant-chief-shelly-jamison |title=Fire Executive Staff |website=www.phoenix.gov |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519091938/https://www.phoenix.gov/fire/about-us/executive-staff/assistant-chief-shelly-jamison |archive-date=2021-05-19}} Her broadcasting background has led her to become a department spokesperson.{{Cite web|url=https://www.12news.com/article/news/health/phoenix-fire-department-chief-says-she-has-breast-cancer/75-4aacdbb2-7394-4d1a-9899-82a45a77b670|title = Phoenix Fire Department chief says she has breast cancer| date=11 December 2019 }}{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Doing_What_Matters_-_Deputy_Fire_Chief_Shelly_Jamison|title=Doing What Matters – Deputy Fire Chief Shelly Jamison|date=6 May 2015}}{{cite AV media| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/Z5aDuKjWlBw| archive-date = 2021-12-11| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5aDuKjWlBw| title = Health Futures – Taking Stock In You with Host Bob Roth & Guest Shelly Jamison & Steve Wagner | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} She retired from the role in December 2023. https://www.instagram.com/phoenixfiredepartment/reel/C1cazwmLdL7/| title = Shelly Jamison retires