Nancy Grace: 2009 and 2010 Dancing for Joan Emcee
We are absolutely thrilled to have Nancy Grace back once again as our emcee for 2010!
Nancy Grace hosts Headline News’ legal analysis program, Nancy Grace, on Headline Prime. She is based in CNN’s New York bureau.
One of television’s most respected legal analysts, Grace comes to Headline News from Court TV, where she hosted the live daily trial coverage program, Closing Arguments, until 2007. She has appeared as a legal commentator on CNN’s Larry King Live, ABC’s The View, The Oprah Winfrey Show and numerous other cable and network programs. Her book, Objection!, was published by Hyperion in April 2005 and was an instant New York Times bestseller.
Nancy Grace joined Court TV from the Atlanta Fulton County District Attorney's Office where she served for a decade as special prosecutor of felony cases involving serial murder, rape, child molestation and arson.
Grace gave up career plans to become an English professor after the murder of her fiancé. She enrolled in law school, eventually becoming a prosecutor and an outspoken victims’ rights advocate. Grace helped staff the hotline at an Atlanta battered women’s center for 10 years.
She has written articles for the American Bar Association Journal and other law reviews. She was also a litigation instructor at Georgia State University’s School of Law and a business law instructor at the university’s school of business. Previously, Grace clerked with a federal court judge and practiced antitrust and consumer protection law with the Federal Trade Commission.