Catherine Crier Biography
Catherine Crier is an American Emmy and duPont-Columbia Award-winning journalist and author who became the youngest state judge to ever be elected in Texas. She is the author of A Deadly Game and The Case Against Lawyers
Catherine Crier Age
Crier is 67 years old as of 2021. She was born Catherine Jean Crier on 6 November 1954 in Dallas, Texas, United States.
Catherine Crier Height
Crier stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.76m).
Catherine Crier Family
Crier was born to Ann Crier, a horse breeder and homemaker, and William Crier, a banker. She is the youngest of two sisters. Crier’s family bought a farm in a Dallas suburb in 1970, and she worked there hauling hay, cleaning stalls, and competing in Arabian horse exhibitions all over the Southwest. Richardson High School was her alma mater.
Catherine Crier Husband
Crier is married to Christopher Wilson. The couple married in 1994. He was previously married to Michael Barrett, Academic Director of Cambridge Digital Innovation and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Innovation at Stockholm School of Economics.
Catherine Crier Education
Crier began her studies at the University of Texas in Austin when she was 16 years old, earning a Bachelor of Arts in political science and international affairs before graduating from Southern Methodist University School of Law with a Juris Doctorate in two and a half years.
Catherine Crier Books
In October 2002, Crier published The Case Against Lawyers, a New York Times bestseller. A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation was her second book, and it was followed by Contempt – How the Right is Wronging American Justice and Final Analysis: The Untold Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case. Patriot Acts — What Americans Must Do to Save the Republic, her fifth book, was released in 2011.
Catherine Crier Salary
Crier earns an annual salary of $81,275.
Catherine Crier Net Worth
Crier has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Catherine Crier Career
Crier began her legal career in 1978 as an Assistant District Attorney for Dallas County, rising through the ranks to become Felony Chief Prosecutor. Crier worked as a civil litigation attorney at Riddle & Brown from 1982 to 1984, managing complex business and corporate cases.
She was elected as a State District Judge to the 162nd District Court in Dallas County in 1984, making her the youngest elected state judge in Texas history. Crier also served as an Administrative Judge for the Civil District Courts and collaborated with the American Bar Association, the National Judicial College, and the Texas Legislature throughout her time on the bench. A coincidental meeting with a television news executive shortly after her election to a second term on the bench led to a career move.
Crier began her television career at CNN in 1990. Inside Politics ’92, a daily show that tracked the 1992 political process, and The World Today, the main evening newscast, both had her as a co-anchor. She also hosted Crier & Company, a half-hour live news chat show. A panel of female policy professionals examined current national and international topics on this show.
In 1993, Crier joined ABC News as a correspondent for the network’s primetime news magazine show 20/20. She won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism in 1996 for her work on the piece “The Predators,” which looked at nursing home abuse across the country. She was also a correspondent for ABC’s World News Tonight and a regular substitute anchor for Peter Jennings, as well as a substitute host for Ted Koppel on Nightline.
With her prime-time program, The Crier Report, a live, hour-long nightly broadcast during which she interviewed key newsmakers of the day, Crier became one of the original television anchors for the Fox News Channel in 1996. She also co-anchored the evening news, election coverage, and Fox Files, the parent network’s magazine news show.
Crier joined the Court TV anchor team in 1999. In addition to hosting Catherine Crier Live, a live daily series covering the day’s “front-page” stories, she served as Executive Editor, Legal News Specials. Catherine Crier Live was on the air for six years before even being canceled in 2007. In 2004, she worked for ESPN as a horse racing analyst.
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