Greta Van Susteren

After a career as a trial attorney in both civil and criminal cases, Greta Van Susteren joined Ted Turner's Cable News Network in 1991 as a legal analyst. Millions of Americans got to know her during O. J. Simpson's 1994 trial for murder, and CNN moved her up to co-host Burden of Proof and then The Point. In late 2001 Van Susteren left CNN, complaining of poor treatment by the network, and went to work for FoxNews as host of On The Record with Greta Van Susteren. Her career move came on the heels of a flurry of cable news talent changes, including those of Paula Zahn (she jumped from FoxNews to CNN) and Geraldo Rivera (he went from NBC to FoxNews), and when Van Susteren revealed that she had undergone blepharoplasty (an "eyelift"), she became the subject of headline news and gossip columns.

Extra credit: Van Susteren's 2003 book was titled My Turn at the Bully Pulpit.