When it was announced that Catherine Crier would be joining Court TV, Henry Schleiff, president and CEO of Court TV, stated, "Court TV is proud to add someone of Catherine's stature to our distinguished roster of anchors. With five years on the bench as a judge in Texas, and a strong background in reporting and anchoring network news, Catherine is a natural fit and will help to take Court TV to the next level."

Crier co-hosted the Fox newsmagazine program Fox Files until October 1999, when she joined Court TV to host a midday legal news show covering the worlds of law, politics, and the media. In addition, she is working on a prime-time program for Court TV, as well as on numerous specials that will be run concurrently on CNN.

Crier came to Fox News following over three-and-a-half years at ABC News. As a correspondent for World News Tonight, she provided comprehensive coverage of major news stories and insightful reports on the American political scene, and was a regular substitute for anchor Peter Jennings. She was also a frequent fill-in anchor for Ted Koppel on Nightline. In 1995, Crier hosted the ABC News primetime special America's War on Drugs: Searching for Solutions.

Prior to her assignment with World News Tonight, Catherine was a correspondent on 20/20, the network's prime-time newsmagazine program. Her examination of nursing home abuses throughout the United States in the segment The Predators won a 1996 Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.

Crier spent three years at CNN before making the move to ABC News. She was co-anchor of both Inside Politics '92 and The World Today. As the host of Crier & Company, a live, half-hour, hard-news talk show, she led a panel of female policy experts discussing the global issues of our time.

Before her dramatic career move in 1989, Crier was a state district judge, presiding over the 162nd District Court in Dallas County, Texas. After taking the bench in 1984, she became the youngest elected state judge in Texas history. Unopposed in her re-election bid, she served a total of five years before resigning to begin her new duties at CNN.

From 1982-1984, Catherine was a civil litigation attorney with Riddle and Brown in Dallas, TX. She served as assistant district attorney and felony chief prosecutor for the Dallas County District Attorney's office from 1978 to 1981.

Crier has been a speaker and author for national, state, and local Bar Associations, and a trial advocacy instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and Southern Methodist University Law School. A former American Bar Association National Committee chair for the Litigation Section, she served two terms on the Texas State Bar Litigation Council as well as on numerous state, local, and judicial committees.

Crier was honored to receive the 1996 Les Femmes du Monde Award sponsored by the Dallas Council on World Affairs and the 1990 Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award given by The Ex-Students' Association of the University of Texas at Austin. Her other honors include being recognized as one of TV Guide's Dynamite Dozen, its twelve new stars who will blaze across the decade, and as one of the ten outstanding working women in America by Glamour magazine.

A native of Dallas, Catherine Crier earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science/international affairs from the University of Texas and a juris doctor degree from Southern University School of Law.