Hunley was also cast on Aaron Spelling’s short-lived Models, Inc. During the first season of Dawson’s Creek (1998) she portrayed Tamara Jacobs, a high school English teacher who has a tempestuous affair with one of her students. She also played Shira Huntzberger on the Gilmore Girls (2000). Leann Hunley also modeled in the past and even won second runner up in the Miss Hawaii contest in 1977. Her other television appearances include roles on 7th Heaven, Who’s the Boss?, Just Shoot Me, Murder She Wrote, Designing Women and others. After a 21-year absence from playing the role of Anna Fredericks-DiMera, Hunley returned to Days of Our Lives on June 21, 2007, playing the recurring role until 2010.