Background
Van Susteren (Dutch for "from Susteren") was born in Appleton, Wisconsin. Her father, Urban Van Susteren, was of Dutch descent. Her mother, born Margery (Conway), was a homemaker.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Greta Susteren
Edit Profile
Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison. Georgetown University. Xavier High School; Georgetown University Law Center.
Career
A former criminal defense and civil trial lawyer, she appeared as a legal analyst on Cable News Network co-hosting Burden of Proof with Roger Cossack from 1994 to 2002, playing defense attorney to Cossack"s prosecutor. In 2015, she was listed as the 99th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. Urban Van Susteren, an elected judge, served as a campaign strategist for McCarthy, although Urban later broke with him.
Van Susteren"s sister, Lise, is a forensic psychiatrist in Bethesda, Maryland.
In 2006, Lise was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senate. Her brother, Dirk Van Susteren, was a journalist and long-time editor of the Vermont Sunday magazine, jointly published, until folding in 2008, by the Rutland Herald and the Barre Montpelier Times Argus.
Van Susteren graduated from Xavier High School in Appleton in 1972 and the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1976, where she studied geography and economics. She later earned a Juris Doctor from Georgetown 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.
During coverage of the O. J. Simpson murder trial, she appeared regularly on Cable News Network as a legal analyst. This led to her stint as co-host of Cable News Network"s Burden of Proof and The Point. Van Susteren made a special celebrity guest appearance on the Cartoon Network original series Space Ghost Coast to Coast in 1998.
In 2002, Van Susteren switched to the Fox News Channel after a highly publicized contract bidding war.
Since then, she has hosted the current affairs show On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren. In 2014, Van Susteren criticized a Republican candidate for the United States. Senate in Texas, Dwayne Stovall, who was challenging two-term incumbent John Cornyn in the primary election on March 4, 2014, after Stovall ran an advertisement calling Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Cornyn"s superior in the Senate leadership, an ineffective "Beltway turtle".
Until the controversial advertisement, the media had largely ignored Stovall"s candidacy. Van Susteren called Stovall a "jerk" for running the ad: "You can be clever and funny in ads.. or you can be gratuitously insulting.".
