Controversial personality Nancy Ann Grace is a former prosecutor and the host of the Headline News program Nancy Grace. She was also the onetime host of Closing Arguments, a Court TV news show.  She has appeared on Larry King Live, The Oprah Winfrey Show and The View and authored a book, Objection!, which made the New York Times Best Seller list in 2005.

Grace describes herself as a victims' rights champion, a mission she says was initially fueled by the tragic early death of her fiance when Grace was just 19. Born on Oct. 23, 1959, Grace experienced a typical working-class upbringing in Macon, GA. Her plans to marry and become an English teacher ended when Keith Griffin, her fiance, was murdered, apparently during a robbery. Grace's focus turned to law and victims' rights. She attended and graduated from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University, Georgia, and obtained her Masters in constitutional and criminal law at New York University.

Nancy's career as a prosecutor was rife with controversy. As a Special Prosecutor for the Atlanta-Fulton County District Attorney's office, she took on tough felony cases such as serial rape, child molestation and arson. Grace is said to have won a conviction for every case she prosecuted, though several were later overturned on appeal. During Bell v. State, a 1994 drug trafficking case, the Supreme Court ruled that grace was guilty of misconduct; a mistrial was declared. Three years later the Court again took Grace to task, stating that Grace's "inappropriate and illegal conduct" during the murder-arson trial of Wayne Weldon Carr was partially responsible for an overturning of Carr's conviction.

Grace left her prosecutor position of her own accord, citing the DA's decision not to run for re-election as the reason. Her new career as a broadcaster set her opposite Johnny Cochran on Cochran & Grace beginning in 1997. She simultaneously worked at CNN Headline News. Cochran eventually left the show, and Grace manned the court coverage alone.

Grace has been widely accused of sensationalizing and of facts distortion. Controversial coverage has included the death of Anna Nicole Smith, during which Grace threw a book (meant to signify a rule book), claiming that the court followed no rules and that the trial was a misrepresentation of the legal system. During her coverage of the Michael Jackson alleged child molestation case, Grace would frequently take out a book found on Jackson's property, The Boy: A Photographic Essay, which contained nude pictures. She was also criticized for deliberately misstating facts about Chris Benoit, an ex-pro wrestler accused of murdering his wife and son and then committing suicide.

One of Grace's most notorious involvements was that of the case of the disappearance of two-year-old Trenton Duckett. During an interview, Grace aggressively pursued a line of questioning of Trenton's mother, Melinda, asking "Where were you? Why aren't you telling us where you were that day?" and stating, "You refuse to give even the simplest facts of where you were with your son before he went missing. It is day twelve." The following day, Melinda Duckett shot herself. Grace insisted that it was Melinda Duckett's own sense of guilt, and not any wrongdoing on her own part, that prompted Melinda to commit suicide.

Grace has been the subject of parody on such television programs as Law & Order and on Saturday Night Live, a fact that she takes with good humor. Grace left Court TV in 2007 to more actively pursue her CNN career, as well as charity work. In April of 2007, she married David Linch, an Atlanta-based investment banker, and 48-year-old Grace gave premature birth to healthy twins Lucy Elizabeth and John David on November 4 of the same year.

Grace makes no bones about her somewhat abrasive persona and aggressive methods. "I don't expect everybody to like me," she is quoted as saying. "If you try to please everybody by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself."