Court TV anchor urges GPAC audience to make a difference

By Nicole Woodlief
Staff Writer

Court TV anchor and Emmy award winner Catherine Crier urged over 600 people Sept. 27 at GPAC "to move from thought to action."

Photo by Mark Schulman Crier signs a copy of her new book ‘Contempt: How the Right is Wronging American Justice’ for junior April Wood.

She asked the question to her audience, "Are we really a democracy?"

It was her mission to let the audience know that they need to act now.

"Lawyers, judges and lobbyists, if left unchecked, will run the system themselves," Crier said.

Crier’s political insight comes from her experience as an attorney and the youngest state elected judge in Texas.

After Crier’s judicial duties on the bench, she began her journalism career in the 1980s where she reported on the decade's most monumental events.

"I was so lucky," Crier said. "I reported on the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Soviet Union, among other things. It was a dream come true; everything happened in '89."

Crier brings her political knowledge to the new millennium in her Court TV program, “Catherine Crier Today.”