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 Van Susteren in February 2018 | |
| Born | Greta Conway Van Susteren[1] (1954-06-11)June 11, 1954 (age 71) Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Education | University of Wisconsin–Madison (BA) Georgetown University (JD) |
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| Years active | 1979–present |
| Television | Burden of Proof,The Point,On the Record,For the Record |
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Greta Conway Van Susteren (born June 11, 1954) is an American journalist, lawyer, and television news anchor forNewsmax TV. She was previously onCNN,Fox News, andMSNBC. She hosted Fox News'sOn the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren for 14 years (2002–2016) before departing for MSNBC, where she hostedFor the Record with Greta for roughly six months in 2017. On June 14, 2022, she began hostingThe Record with Greta van Susteren on Newsmax. A former criminal defense and civil trial lawyer, she appeared as a legal analyst on CNN co-hostingBurden of Proof with Roger Cossack from 1994 to 2002, playing defense attorney to Cossack's prosecutor. In 2016,[2] she was listed as the 94th most powerful woman in the world[3] byForbes, up from 99th in 2015.[4]
Greta Conway Van Susteren was born inAppleton, Wisconsin. Her father, Urban Van Susteren, was ofDutch descent.[5][6] Her mother, born Margery Conway, was a homemaker of Irish descent.[7][8] Van Susteren's father was a longtime friend of future U.S. SenatorJoseph McCarthy, who was best man at Greta's parents' wedding.[9] Urban Van Susteren, an elected judge, served as a campaign strategist for McCarthy but later broke with McCarthy.[10]
Van Susteren's sister,Lise, is aforensic psychiatrist inBethesda, Maryland. In 2006, Lise was a candidate for theDemocratic nomination forUnited States Senate.[11] Her brother, Dirk Van Susteren, was a journalist and long-time editor of theVermont Sunday magazine, jointly published, until folding in 2008, by theRutland Herald and theBarre Montpelier Times Argus.[12]
Van Susteren graduated fromXavier High School in Appleton in 1972 and theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison in 1976, where she studied geography and economics. She later earned aJ.D. fromGeorgetown University Law Center in 1979 and prior to the start of her television work returned to Georgetown Law as an adjunct faculty member in addition to her full-time legal career. She was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree from Stetson Law School.[13]
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During coverage of theO. J. Simpson murder trial, she appeared regularly on CNN as a legal analyst.[14] This led to her stint as co-host of CNN'sBurden of Proof andThe Point.[2]
During the Clinton impeachment debate, Van Susteren dismissed the issue as one of an unfaithful husband, and not an impeachable offense.[15]
In 2002, Van Susteren switched to the Fox News Channel after a highly publicized contract-bidding war. Before starting at Fox she also underwent cosmetic surgery that significantly changed her look.[16] She hosted thecurrent affairs showOn the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren.[15]
On September 6, 2016, she resigned from Fox News. She was not able to say goodbye on-air, as the network immediately filled theOn the Record anchor spot withBrit Hume. Van Susteren, who said that Fox "has not felt like home to me for a few years," chose to take advantage of a clause in her contract that allowed her to resign from the network immediately: "The clause had a time limitation, meaning I could not wait."[17]
In early 2017, Van Susteren signed on withNBC News to anchor the 6 p.m.ET program on its 24-hour cable news channel,MSNBC. The program, titledFor the Record with Greta, launched on January 9, 2017.[18] On June 29, 2017, according to Van Susteren onTwitter, she was "out at MSNBC" as her new program did not do well in ratings.[19]
In October 2017, Van Susteren joinedVoice of America as a contributor.[20][21]
In February 2019, Van Susteren joinedGray Television, a large group of television stations, as its chief national political analyst out of Gray's Washington bureau, providing commentary and analysis to the newscasts airing on Gray's 140+ stations. She was also developing two nationally syndicated shows for the company.[22] In April 2019, Van Susteren and Gray announcedFull Court Press with Greta Van Susteren, aSunday morning talk show, which would begin airing on most Gray stations in September 2019, along withWeigel Broadcasting stations inChicago andMilwaukee.[23] With Gray stations in Iowa and South Carolina, the program hoped to get candidate interviews for such early election primary states. The program planned to roll out "Full Court Press-Overtime", a website and associated app with additional content and user feedback.[24]
In May 2022, it was announced that Van Susteren had joinedNewsmax TV, and on June 14, she started hostingThe Record with Greta Van Susteren.[25][26]
Van Susteren marriedtort lawyer John P. Coale in 1988.[27][28] She and her husband areScientologists.[29] In 1995, in an interview withPeople, she said she is "a strong advocate oftheir ethics".[30]
From August 2006 until January 2014, she was a co-owner of the Old Mill Inn, a restaurant inMattituck, New York, on theNorth Fork ofLong Island.[31][32]
Van Susteren is on the board of directors at the National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD).[33] The institute was created at theUniversity of Arizona in the aftermath of theshooting that killed six people and injured 13 others, including U.S. RepresentativeGabby Giffords.[34]
She visitedMyanmar several times and testified beforeCongress to draw attention to thehuman rights abuses andgenocide against theRohingya people.[35]
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