Greta Van Susteren Biography

Fast Facts

• Earned the Presidential Award for Excellence in Journalism from the American Bar Association for her legal coverage of the 2000 presidential election
• Was named one of the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes Magazine
• Was the first Stuart Stiller Fellow at Georgetown Law Center
• Graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor's degree in Economics
• Earned her law degree from Georgetown Law in 1979 and her Master of Law in 1982, also from Georgetown
• Was a legal analyst at CNN, where she contributed analysis during the O․J․ Simpson trials
• Was an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Law Center from 1984 to 1999
• Best known as the host of "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren․"
• Has reported on a variety of important news events, including the court cases of Scott Peterson and Michael Jackson and the Virginia Tech massacre
• Her interview with the father of Paul van der Sloot, a suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, led to his detainment