CNN, Fox, court veteran is against changing the U.S. legal structure

By Nicole Woodlief
Staff Writer

Catherine Crier will be visiting GPAC Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series. She is an executive editor, reports legal news specials, and is the host of “Catherine Crier Live” on Court TV, Monday through Friday at 5 p.m.

Crier is the youngest state judge to ever become elected in Texas, an award winning journalist and now a part of the Court TV news team with her own show.

Photo courtesy of UNCP Emmy award winning anchor Catherine Crier speaks at GPAC Sept. 27.

Many students around campus have no idea who or how great this woman is.

“Is that a girl around campus?” freshman Josh Crutchfield said.

When asking students around campus if they are coming to see Catherine Crier speak on Sept. 27, the same question arose. Catherine who?

Yet there are others who are in the know of this great woman.

“I am happy she is coming. She is the type of person who is a leader, who will speak up, and try to get everyone involved in national news,” Porshe Mitchell said.

Crier began her life in journalism when she graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and International Affairs. She later received her Juris Doctor at the Southern Methodist University School of Law. A Juris Doctor is a graduate law degree that meets the academic requirements to practice law.

Crier spends most of her time in New York where she lives. When she is not broadcasting or concentrating on her analysis of other cases, she is raising her Arabian horses, plays golf and goes scuba diving.

Crier started her career at CNN. She was a co-anchor of “Inside Politics” in 1992 and also during that year she co-anchored “The World Today.” She later hosted “Crier and Company,” an all female news panel who discussed both national and international issues going on in the world at the time.

Crier then later moved to Fox News where she anchored the “Crier Report” after being with ABC news for more than three years. There she was a correspondent for the late Peter Jennings on “World News Tonight” and “20/20.”

Crier won her first Emmy in 1996 for her work on “The Predators,” in which she investigated nursing home abuse in the United States.

Among her never-ending accomplishments, Crier has recently come out with a new book called “Contempt: How the Right is Wronging American Justice.” Her new book offers her opinions about those who want to change the legal structure of the United States.