Dean Wade has been living in Mississippi for the last 19 years. He grew up in Kentucky and graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in Journalism. He started working in broadcasting when he was 16.
He is married, has two children and lives in Hattiesburg.
Some of you may remember, Dean spending 3 years at WDAM in the late 1990's as a reporter, weathercaster and co-anchor of the 10pm news.
Dean returned to the station to co-anchor News 7 Today in February 2011.