Greta Van Susteren

Greta Van Susteren is an American commentator and former television news anchor for CNN, Fox News, and NBC News. She hosted Fox News’s “On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren” for nearly 15 years (2002–2016) before departing for MSNBC, where she hosted “For the Record with Greta” for roughly six months in 2017. A former criminal defense and civil trial lawyer, she appeared as a legal analyst on CNN co-hosting “Burden of Proof” with Roger Cossack from 1994 to 2002, playing defense attorney to Cossack’s prosecutor. In 2016, she was listed as the 94th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes, up from 99th in 2015.

Prior to her television career she was an attorney and adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University. She lives in the Washington, D.C., area.