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Fox News Sunday has a new lead. The weekend news show has tapped Shannon Bream as its very first female anchor, Variety reports. Bream will replace Chris Wallace, who anchored the show from 2003 to 2021, when he left to host a new CNN+ program.

Bream previously hosted Fox News @ Night, which has not yet named her replacement, but will use a rotation of guest hosts in her place. She will continue on as the network’s chief legal correspondent.

“It has been an honor to cover major news throughout Washington over the last 15 years at Fox News,” Bream said in a statement, per Variety. “I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to host a Sunday show and look forward to this new role.”

Bream is taking over as a permanent host after guest hosting Fox News Sunday following Wallace’s departure. Although she was among multiple guest anchors, her episodes stood out as some of the most popular, the network said, noting that her appearances “overdelivered the 2021 average of the show by 20%.”

Her new role at Fox News Sunday begins Sept. 11, Variety reports.

Bream first joined Fox News in 2007, and has since interviewed First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Justice Neil Gorsuch, according to Variety. She also covered the war in Ukraine on her show, providing coverage to viewers in February and March.

Wallace, Bream’s predecessor, left Fox News Sunday after claiming life at the network became “unsustainable” for him. Fox News Sunday is one of the network’s more straightforward programs that often acts as a foil to Fox’s conservative talk shows.

Wallace told The New York Times in March that he “no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox,” explaining, “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion. But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”