Lis Wiehl
Lis Wiehl (born August 9, 1961, Seattle, Washington) is an American author and legal analyst for Fox News.
She is an adjunct professor of law at New York Law School, and formerly was an associate professor at University of Washington Law School. She formerly offered legal commentary for National Public Radio program and on Bill O'Reilly's radio program, The Radio Factor. She also debates feminist issues every Friday with Marc H. Rudov on Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto. She is the sister of actor Christopher Wiehl.
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[edit] Education and career
Wiehl graduated from West Valley High School in Yakima, Wa, received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1983, a Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Queensland in 1985, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1987.[1]
She began her career as a lawyer for the law firm of Perkins Coie, then served as a federal prosecutor from 1990–1995. Wiehl worked for the House of Representatives team (as "principal deputy chief minority investigative counsel" for the House Judiciary Committee) in the late 1990s, including during the Clinton impeachment proceedings.[2]
Before joining Fox, Wiehl was a legal analyst for CBS affiliate KIRO-TV in Seattle, and (from November 2000 to February 2001) NBC News.[1]
[edit] Marriage to Mickey Sherman
Wiehl married criminal-defense attorney Mickey Sherman on June 23, 2006 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Sherman is a television legal analyst who represented Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel in the murder trial in which Skakel was convicted.
Numerous celebrities were present at the marriage on June 23, 2006 at a Greenwich restaurant: singer Michael Bolton, Bolton's fiance, Nicollette Sheridan, Court TV founder Steven Brill, legal analysts Rikki Klieman and Catherine Crier, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, television host and journalist Dan Abrams, CBS journalist Hannah Storm and her husband, NBC Sports anchor Dan Hicks, actor (and her brother) Christopher Wiehl, film producer and director Barry Levinson, Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera, Fox News personality E.D. Hill, Connecticut state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, filmmaker Tomaczek Bednarek and his girlfriend MSNBC reporter Rita Cosby, Fox News legal analyst Jonna Spilbor, and John Dearden. Judge Judy Sheinlin showed up after the ceremony.[3]
Wiehl has a daughter and a son from a previous marriage and was living in Westchester County, New York before her marriage to Sherman.[2] Her husband also has an adult son and an adult daughter from a previous marriage.
[edit] Books
- Waking Hours, with Pete Nelson, Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2011, ISBN 978-1-595-54940-2 (First in East Salem series)
- Winning Every Time: How to Use the Skills of a Lawyer in the Trials of Your Life, New York : Ballantine Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-345-46919-9 (0-345-46919-4)
- The 51% Minority: How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do About It, New York : Ballantine Books, ©2007, ISBN 978-0-345-46921-2 (0-345-46921-6)
- Face of Betrayal (A Triple Threat Novel)Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers-Fiction (April 7, 2009)
by Lis Wiehl (Author), April Henry (Author)
- Hand of Fate Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2010.
Released April 6, 2010 When the host of a popular radio talk show is murdered, the suspects almost outnumber his millions of listeners.
- Heart of Ice Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2011. Third in the Triple Threat Club novels series, which follow three fiercely intelligent women—a TV reporter, a Federal prosecutor and an FBI agent—as they investigate crimes as current as today’s headlines.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Fox News bio for "Lis Wiehl"". Fox News. January 23, 2007. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77671,00.html. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
- ^ a b "The Forum: Greenwich Jaycees Feb 8th Forum Event". Greenwich Jaycees. Archived from the original on 2006-12-19. http://web.archive.org/web/20061219162953/http://www.bizrsvp.com/jaycees/. Retrieved 2006-10-11.
- ^ Costaregni, Susie (July 1, 2006). "Paul Simon Springs a Surprise Visit". The Advocate (Stamford): pp. A2.
