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Nancy Grace

Nancy Grace hosts CNN 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 CNN Headline News from Court TV, where she hosts the live daily trial coverage program, Closing Arguments. She is also a frequent guest on CNN’s Larry King Live and has appeared as a legal commentator on ABC’s The View, The Oprah Winfrey Show and numerous other cable and network programs. Her radio show, Rapid Fire with Nancy Grace, premiered in February 2004 on Clear Channel. Her first book, Objection!, is slated for publication with Hyperion in April 2005.

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 random 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.

Grace was a law review graduate of Mercer Law School and received her degree in constitutional and criminal law from New York University.