Nancy Ann Grace was born on October 23,1959 and is an American legal commentator and television journalist.
49 Facts About Nancy Grace
2.
Nancy Grace hosted Nancy Grace, a nightly celebrity news and current affairs show on HLN, from 2005 to 2016, and Court TV's Closing Arguments from 1996 to 2007.
3.
Nancy Grace frequently discusses issues from what she describes as a victims' rights standpoint, with an outspoken style that has brought her both praise and criticism.
4.
Nancy Grace was born in Macon, Georgia, the youngest of three children, to factory worker Elizabeth Grace and Mac Grace, a freight agent for Southern Railway.
5.
Nancy Grace went on to earn a Master of Laws in constitutional and criminal law from New York University.
6.
Nancy Grace was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Jacksonville State University on April 29,2023.
7.
Nancy Grace has written articles and opinion pieces for legal periodicals, including the American Bar Association Journal.
8.
Nancy Grace worked as a clerk for a federal court judge and practiced antitrust and consumer protection law with the Federal Trade Commission.
9.
Nancy Grace taught litigation at the Georgia State University College of Law and business law at GSU's School of Business.
10.
Nancy Grace worked for nearly a decade in the Atlanta-Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney's office as Special Prosecutor.
11.
Nancy Grace left the prosecutors' office after the District Attorney she had been working under decided not to run for reelection.
12.
When Cochran left the show, Nancy Grace was moved to a solo trial coverage show on Court TV, she hosted Trial Heat from 1996 to 2004, then Closing Arguments from 2004 to 2007, replacing Lisa Bloom and James Curtis, both of whom were hosting Trial Heat at that point.
13.
On May 9,2007, Nancy Grace announced that she would be leaving Court TV to focus more on her CNN Headline News Program and charity work.
14.
Nancy Grace did her last show on Court TV on June 19,2007.
15.
Nancy Grace has a distinctive interviewing style mixing vocal questions with multimedia stats displays.
16.
Nancy Grace left the show due to productions moving from Atlanta to Los Angeles.
17.
Nancy Grace had been covering the Casey Anthony story for years.
18.
On October 13,2016, at the end of her contract, Nancy Grace hosted her last show.
19.
Nancy Grace criticized her handling of the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, the Duke lacrosse case, the Melinda Duckett interview and suicide, and the Caylee Anthony case.
20.
Nancy Grace made statements such as users were "fat and lazy" and that anyone who disagreed with her was "lethargic, sitting on the sofa, eating chips" to CNN's news correspondent Brooke Baldwin during a segment covering legalization in Colorado on January 6,2014.
21.
Nancy Grace, in defending herself, stated that she was a crime victim herself, and that they didn't ask her one decent question.
22.
The next day on The View, Nancy Grace addressed the interview, calling Norton and Roberts "Beavis and Butt-Head".
23.
Nancy Grace suggested publicly that Ricci's girlfriend was involved in the cover-up of his alleged crime.
24.
Nancy Grace continued to accuse Ricci, who had died while in custody.
25.
In July 2006, Nancy Grace interviewed Smart, who was promoting a legislative bill.
26.
Nancy Grace dismissed the defense's proposal that hair and fibers found on Westerfield's black jacket had been transferred from van Dam to Westerfield when the two were dancing at a bar on Friday night.
27.
Nancy Grace contended that the jacket was leather and a transfer would not have been possible.
28.
Nancy Grace made some statements pointing to Westerfield's possible innocence.
29.
Nancy Grace took a vehemently pro-prosecution position throughout the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case, in which Crystal Mangum, a stripper and North Carolina Central University student, falsely accused three members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team of raping her at a party.
30.
In September 2006,22-year-old Melinda Duckett committed suicide following an interview conducted by Nancy Grace concerning the disappearance of Duckett's 2-year-old son, Trenton.
31.
Nancy Grace was not one anyone ever would have thought of to do something like this.
32.
The attorney for the estate alleges that, even if Duckett did kill her own son, Nancy Grace's aggressive questioning traumatized Duckett so much that she committed suicide.
33.
Nancy Grace argues that CNN's decision to air the interview after Duckett's suicide traumatized her family.
34.
On November 8,2010, Nancy Grace reached a settlement with the estate of Melinda Duckett to create a $200,000 trust fund dedicated to locating Trenton.
35.
Nancy Grace would reveal every new detail of the story.
36.
Nancy Grace's program is cited as having "almost single-handedly inflated the Anthony case from a routine local murder into a national obsession".
37.
Michelle Zierler, director of the Project in Law and Journalism at New York Law School, said Nancy Grace "is always certain that the defendant is guilty and needs instant punishment" and this had affected her analysis of the case.
38.
Some reporters have pointed out that Nancy Grace should have waited for the coroner's report before making this allegation.
39.
Nancy Grace claimed that "rumors of steroid and drug use are swirling" in the case of Ultimate Warrior's death, although an autopsy had concluded that Warrior had died of natural causes with neither drugs nor alcohol in his system at his time of death.
40.
Nancy Grace responded to criticism by telling Radar Online that she would welcome any WWE personalities to come onto her show to "correct all of my misconceptions".
41.
Nancy Grace was a contestant on the thirteenth season of Dancing with the Stars, which began airing on September 19,2011.
42.
In early April 2012, Nancy Grace appeared on the last two episodes of the second season of the TV show Raising Hope playing herself.
43.
Nancy Grace has a cameo appearance in the film Hancock, starring Will Smith.
44.
Nancy Grace believed Henry was communicating with her dead father, as well as murdered fiance, and said she had received closure.
45.
Nancy Grace goes on to prosecute violent crime and is forced to reckon with what she left behind.
46.
Nancy Grace has helped staff a hotline at an Atlanta battered women's center for 10 years.
47.
On June 26,2007, an emotional Nancy Grace announced on her HLN talk show that her life had "taken a U-turn" in that she was pregnant and expecting twins due in January 2008.
48.
Nancy Grace has described the tragedy as the impetus for her career as a prosecutor and victims' rights advocate, and has often publicly referred to the incident.
49.
Originally Nancy Grace was portrayed by SNL cast member Amy Poehler.