Greta Van Susteren
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| Born | June 11, 1954 Appleton, Wisconsin, USA |
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| Occupation | Host of On the Record (Fox News Channel) |
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Greta Van Susteren (born June 11, 1954 in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA) is an American journalist and television personality on the Fox News Channel where she hosts On the Record with Greta Van Susteren. She previously appeared on CNN from 1991 to 2002.
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[edit] Education
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Van Susteren graduated from Xavier High School in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1972. She earned her bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976. Van Susteren then studied law at Georgetown University Law Center, earning both a Juris Doctor and a Master of Laws (1979, 1982). Prior to the start of her television career, she returned to Georgetown Law as an adjunct faculty member in addition to her full-time legal career.
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She is of Irish ancestry on her mother's side as well as ¼ Dutch, ¼ French and ¼ German on her father's.[1]. The name Van ("from") Susteren refers to the Dutch town of Susteren, in the southeastern part of The Netherlands. Her father, Urban Van Susteren, was an old friend, fellow law student, and later campaign strategist for Joe McCarthy's successful 1946 U.S. Senate campaign where he defeated two-term incumbent Robert LaFollette, Jr., in a three-candidate race. During his Senate career, McCarthy lived in the Van Susterens' Appleton home whenever he was not in Washington.[2]
She is married to Washington, D.C. lawyer John Coale. Van Susteren is also a practicing Scientologist.[3]
Van Susteren's sister, Lise, was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from the state of Maryland in 2006. Lise is a forensic psychiatrist from Bethesda, Maryland.[4][5]
[edit] Career
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Greta Van Susteren first came to prominence in 1991, covering the William Kennedy Smith trial for CNN; however, her coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder case made her widely recognizable and respected as a legal analyst. She was noticed by the network's programming executives and was given a co-anchor spot alongside political analyst Roger Cossack on the legal affairs news show Burden of Proof. She also hosted the primetime program The Point with Greta Van Susteren, which was the second highest rated program on CNN.
In 2002, the Fox News Channel snagged her in a highly-publicized contract bidding war, which included an incident where she was en route to New York to talk with Fox management when her flight was cancelled because of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Since that time, she has hosted the current affairs show On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren and has become one of the network's more popular personalities.
She currently serves as the Honorary Chairperson of the Little Chute Windmill committee. The windmill will be an authentic reproduction of a Dutch windmill and will be built in Little Chute, Wisconsin where her family lived for some period [6].
[edit] References
- ^ e-mail interview with Greta Van Susteren, classicwisconsin.com
- ^ Time magazine, October 22, 1951
- ^ High profile couple never pairs church and state, St. Petersburg Times, December 13, 1998
- ^ Greta Van Susteren's sister running for U.S. Senate, WorldNetDaily, August 30, 2005
- ^ Lise Van Susteren Joins Md. Senate Race, Washington Post, September 1, 2005
- ^ GoDutch
