Greta Van Susteren

Greta Van Susteren ( born June 11, 1954 in Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American television presenter and journalist.

Life and work

Greta Van Susteren was born in 1954 in Wisconsin, where she spent her childhood. Her father, Urban Van Susteren was a close friend and election strategist of Senator Joseph McCarthy, with whom he later broke. While the father was Dutch, French and German roots, her mother was of Irish descent. Van Susterens sister Lise, who lives as a clinical psychologist in Bethesda, Maryland, was known for its candidacy for the nomination by the Democratic Party for the office of the Senator from Maryland in 2006.

Van Susteren studied at Georgetown University Law Center, which she left in 1979 with a degree in law. She then worked as a lawyer and lecturer at Georgetown.

In the early 1990s Van Susteren became known to a wider public, as they during the OJ Simpson process regularly appeared as a legal analyst on CNN. Following up she got a job as co-presenter of the program Burden of Proof and The Point, which she presented from 1994 to 2002. In 2002, Van Susteren on conservative cable TV channel Fox News. There they presented to the present day, the five weekly broadcast format On the Record w / Greta Van Susteren. Content presents the broadcast interviews with politicians and public figures on current political and social issues. Van Susteren, one of the best known and most popular presenters of its transmitter, as other Fox presenters often criticized for an excessive proximity to the Republican Party and their representatives. She was criticized, for example, when they 2009 to the so-called Tea Parties, organized by conservative groups mass protests against the policies of the Obama administration, occurred, with her ​​role as a presenter, according to some critics very blurry in favor of a role of inflammatory Anheizerin the gathered crowds.

Van Susteren is married to John P. Coale. Both are members of Scientology.