Laura Ingraham

Laura Anne Ingraham (born June 19, 1963) is an American conservative television host.

Ingraham worked as a speechwriter in the Reagan administration in the late 1980s.

In the late 1980s, Ingraham worked as a speechwriter in the Reagan administration for the Domestic Policy Advisor.

She also briefly served as editor of The Prospect, the magazine issued by Concerned Alumni of Princeton.

She graduated from Glastonbury High School in 1981.

Ingraham studied English literature and Russian at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts.

After college, Ingraham spent several years as a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan's domestic policy advisor.

She then attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was a notes editor for the Virginia Law Review.

Ingraham began her media career in the mid-1990s.

Ingraham is known for her support for Donald Trump and acted as an informal advisor during his presidency.

Ingraham grew up in Glastonbury, Connecticut, where she was born to Anne Caroline (née Kozak) and James Frederick Ingraham III.

Her maternal grandparents were Polish immigrants and her father was of Irish and English ancestry.

In the late 1990s, she became a CBS commentator and hosted the MSNBC program Watch It!.

Several years later, on her radio program, Ingraham began campaigning for another cable television show.

She earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia in 1991 and was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

She then worked for the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York City.

She graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1991.

After graduating from law school in 1991, Ingraham was a law clerk for Judge Ralph K. Winter Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1991 to 1992 and for Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas from 1992 to 1993.

She then worked as an attorney at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

In 1995, she appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine in connection with a story about young conservatives.

In 1996, she and Jay P. Lefkowitz organized the first Dark Ages Weekend in response to Renaissance Weekend.

Ingraham has had three stints as a cable television host.

She first became a host on MSNBC in 1996.

Ingraham launched The Laura Ingraham Show in April 2001.

The show was heard on 306 stations and on XM Satellite Radio.

It was originally syndicated by Westwood One, but moved to Talk Radio Network in 2004.

In 2008, Fox News Channel gave her a three-week trial run for a new show entitled Just In.

In 2012, Ingraham was rated as the No. 5 radio show in America by Talkers Magazine.

In November 2012, she announced her departure from Talk Radio Network, declining to renew her contract with TRN after nearly a decade of being associated with the network.

She was the second major host from TRN's lineup to leave the network that year: TRN's other major program, The Savage Nation, left TRN two months earlier.

Her new program, syndicated by Courtside Entertainment Group, began airing on January 2, 2013, and went off the air in December 2018.

Ingraham continues to produce podcast material for Courtside's PodcastOne division.

LifeZette is a conservative American website founded in 2015 by Ingraham and businessman Peter Anthony.

She has been the host of The Ingraham Angle on Fox News Channel since October 2017, and is the editor-in-chief of LifeZette.

She formerly hosted the nationally syndicated radio show The Laura Ingraham Show.

In October 2017, she became the host of a new Fox News Channel program, The Ingraham Angle.

In January 2018, Ingraham confirmed that she had sold the majority stake in LifeZette to The Katz Group, owned by Canadian billionaire Daryl Katz.

Ingraham has been described as "no stranger to generating controversy" by Variety and as a "name-brand provocateur" by Politico.

Business Insider has referred to Ingraham's on-air style as "wad[ing] into debates on racism and gun violence".

Ingraham has said that her influences include Ronald Reagan, Robert Bork and Pat Buchanan.