A bakery owner from Knoxville, Tennessee...

Emily Herndon

Hi! I'm Emily Herndon, a bakery owner from Knoxville. Watch me rise above the competition on Jeopardy!

Season 31 1-time champion: $8,100 + $2,000.

Emily won $5,000 on Who Wants to be a Millionaire on 2018-05-25.

Emily won $13,097 in cash & prizes on Wheel of Fortune on 2019-11-13.

Emily appeared on The Chase on 2022-05-10 along with Suchita Sata and they each won $35,000 of a $70,000 jackpot after defeating chaser James Holzhauer in the Final Chase while McKinnie Sizemore was caught in the Head to Head round.

Emily appeared in the following 2 archived games:
#6914, aired 2014-10-09 Emily Herndon vs. Venkat Krishnan vs. Rena Morse
#6913, aired 2014-10-08 Terri Pous vs. Emily Herndon vs. Jason Washington

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