Lauren Laniece Lake is an American family lawyer, author, interior designer, real estate developer, background singer, legal/relationship/life consultant, guest host, television judge, and talk show presenter.
Lake has performed in guest hosting and news anchoring positions for various talk shows and reality legal programs. In much of her guest hosting, she has tackled controversial racial, ethnic, gender, and political issues head-on. She was the host of HGTV's how-to series Spice Up My Kitchen.
Lake is best known for arbitrating as the presiding judge over her own tabloid talk/nontraditional courtroom series, Lauren Lake's Paternity Court. The series ran 7 seasons, and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award five times, including a win in 2019. Lake will return to courtroom programming, taking over the revival of We the People in her own edition We the People with Judge Lauren Lake. The series will return in the fall 2022, produced by Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios.
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Representative TV credits first: longer-running roles appear before newer one-off appearances.
