Nancy Grace
Nancy Grace is a former prosecutor, currently hosting CourtTV's "Closing Arguments". She also has her own primetime show on CNN Headline News at 8 p.m. ET.
A longtime lover of Shakespearean literature, Grace had planned on becoming an English professor upon graduating from college. Her plans as well as her life were changed by the violent murder of her fiancé. The incident propelled her to enroll in law school and set her on the path to become a felony prosecutor and an outspoken victims' rights advocate.
Prior to her television career Nancy Grace served for nearly a decade in the Atlanta Fulton County District Attorney's Office as Special Prosecutor of major felony cases involving serial murder, serial rape, serial child molestation and arson. Grace compiled a perfect record of nearly 100 felony convictions at trial and no losses, although some cases were overturned on appeal.
Grace, a Law Review graduate of Mercer Law School, received her LLM in constitutional and criminal law from New York University. She has written articles for the American Bar Association Journal, various law reviews, and op-eds. She was also a litigation instructor at Georgia State University School of Law and a Business Law Instructor at GSU's School of Business. Previously, Grace clerked with a federal court judge and practiced antitrust and consumer protection law with the Federal Trade Commission.
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