An Emmy, duPont-Columbia, and Gracie Allen Award-winning journalist and the youngest state judge to ever be elected in Texas, Catherine Crier is an accomplished lawyer, judge, professor, journalist, and writer. Crier joined Court TV in November 1999 and currently hosts Catherine Crier Live, a fast-paced, live daily series that addresses the legal perspective of the day's "front-page" story. In addition Crier holds the title of Executive Editor, Legal News Specials and has hosted many of Court TV's signature prime time series and numerous other specials. Her work on The System documentary The Interrogation of Michael Crowe was recognized with a duPont-Columbia Award, the broadcast journalism equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize, and the Catherine Crier Live special, Grandmothers: Voices from Oklahoma City received the Foundation for American Women in Radio and Television's Gracie Allen award. She most recently received her second Gracie Allen award for "Outstanding Talk Show Host" for Catherine Crier Live. Crier, a Texas-bred independent with a spirited passion for justice, released her first book, The New York Times Best Seller, The Case Against Lawyers, in the fall of 2002.
Preceding Crier's tenure at Court TV, she anchored The Crier Report for Fox News Channel. Prior to that Crier spent three and a half years at ABC News where she served as a correspondent and as a regular substitute anchor for Peter Jennings on ABC's World News Tonight, as well as a substitute host for Ted Koppel's Nightline. She also worked as a correspondent on 20/20. Crier was awarded a 1996 Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism for her work on the segment The Predators which examined nursing home abuses throughout the United States. Crier began her television career at CNN where she was co-anchor of both Inside Politics '92, and The World Today. Additionally, she hosted Crier & Company, a live, half-hour news talk show.
Prior to her accomplished career in television journalism, Crier presided over the 162nd District Court in Dallas County, TX as a State District Judge. When she took the bench in 1984, she became the youngest elected state judge in Texas history. From 1982 to 1984, Crier was a civil litigation attorney in Dallas and before that, an Assistant District Attorney and Felony Chief Prosecutor for the Dallas County District Attorney's office from 1978 to 1981.
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