Myeshia Mizuno

Myeshia Mizuno is a seasoned television producer and executive. She is currently the showrunner and executive producer of the highly rated syndicated “Family Feud,” as well as ABC’s primetime hits “Judge Steve Harvey” and “Celebrity Family Feud.”

Her career began in advertising at the boutique agency, Donat & Wald. During Mizuno’s time as an ad executive, she produced commercials for their client base, including 1-800-DENTIST, Dermalogica and George Forman. Those moments on commercial sets are what propelled her to pursue a career in TV.

Mizuno’s early days in television included projects at MTV, FOX, NBC, Telepictures, GSN, BBC, Endemol and BET, producing a variety of unscripted television: game shows, reality competitions, talk shows and court shows. Notably, Mizuno had the honor of producing the syndicated juggernaut “Judge Judy” seasons five and six. During her time as a development executive with FOX’s syndicated division, 20th Television, she was an instrumental part of the team which launched MyNetworkTV. Along with the launch of the new network, Mizuno was responsible for overseeing 300-plus hours of scripted editing during the production of six telenovelas, a first for the English-speaking market. Her producing career continued with such projects as syndicated NBC talk show “TRISHA,” ABC’s primetime game show “Supermarket Sweep” and CNBC’s “Money Court,” which she developed for Anvil Entertainment.

Mizuno moved to Atlanta to executive produce MGM’s daytime syndicated court show “Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court.” Upon joining the show in season three, the daily strip received its first Daytime Emmy® Award nomination. Subsequently, “Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court” would receive four more nominations and an Emmy win in 2019 for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program. With this success, Mizuno and 79 & York Entertainment developed two more daytime court shows for MGM, the two-time Emmy-nominated “Couples Court with The Cutlers” and “Personal Injury Court.”

Mizuno’s reputation of being a producer’s producer led to an introduction to Steve Harvey, who had the idea of “being a judge.” Mizuno developed the idea and created the hilarious and heartfelt primetime court comedy “Judge Steve Harvey,” which was nominated for an Emmy in its first season. She is now at the helm of the iconic game show and franchise “Family Feud.”

Mizuno resides in Los Angeles and Atlanta.