Petri Hawkins-Byrd is a $2.5 million net-worth American bailiff, television personality, actor, writer, and producer. Petri Hawkins-Byrd, also known as Bailiff Byrd, began working as a bailiff in the Brooklyn court system in the early 1980s before moving to the Family Court in Manhattan.
While working as a bailiff in Manhattan, Byrd began working for Judge Judith Sheindlin, and when he learned that she would be featured on her own court show, he wrote her a letter of congratulations. She later called him and invited him to serve as her bailiff on the show, and Petri has become well-known throughout the United States as the bailiff on “Judge Judy.
Who is Petri Hawkins-Byrd married to?
Petri Hawkins-Byrd married Felicia Hawkins, the mother of his children, in 1980. They divorced in 1989, and Felicia relocated to the West Coast with the couple’s children. Byrd and Hawkins reconciled after marriage counseling, but not permanently. Byrd has four children from his first marriage to Hawkins, all of whom are adults.
On May 4, 2019, Byrd married former Judge Judy crew member Makita Bond Byrd. Prior to Bond becoming a producer for the court show, the two initially met in 2012 on the Sunset Bronson Studios lot (where Judge Judy was taped for the entirety of its run). The two lost contact after going on a date to a comedy concert around that time.
In 2015, the two briefly reconnected by text messaging, with Byrd welcoming Makita and her responding, but there were no additional conversations at the time. Bond was hired as a producer on Judge Judy in 2016.
She planned a surprise visit as a new producer on the set of the court show for Byrd, expecting he’d remember her from a Facebook request he gave her once she got the job. However, Byrd later admitted that when they met, he simply pretended to remember her, discreetly asking a fellow Judge Judy crew member who she was. Byrd has remarked that if Bond had not still possessed a photo of the two of them on the Sunset Bronson Studio lot back in 2012, he would not have recalled who she was.
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