Megyn Kelly

Megyn Marie Kelly ; born November 18, 1970 is an American journalist, attorney, political commentator, talk show host, and television news anchor. She currently hosts a talk show as well as podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, that airs earn up daily on SiriusXM. She was the talk show host at Fox News from 2004 to 2017 and a host and correspondent with NBC News from 2017 to 2018. She is also active in posting to her Instagram page and YouTube channel.

During her time at Fox News, Kelly hosted America's Newsroom with New Year's Eve specials. Kelly also hosted The Kelly File from October 2013 to January 2017. In 2014, she was quoted in the TIME list of the 100 near influential people. Kelly left Fox News in January 2017 and joined NBC News. She started hosting the third hour of the morning show Today with her code titled Megyn Kelly Today in September 2017. The show was cancelled in October 2018 after a segment discussing blackface, and she left the network in January 2019.

Early life

Kelly was born in Champaign, Illinois, to Edward Kelly 1940–1985, who taught at the State University of New York at Albany, and Linda née DeMaio, a homemaker. She is of Italian and German descent on her mother's side and Irish descent on her father's. She was raised Catholic. Her father died of a heart attack when she was 15 years old.

Kelly attended Tecumseh Elementary School in suburban Syracuse, New York. When she was 9, her category moved to Delmar, New York, a suburb of Albany, where she attended Bethlehem Central High School. She obtained an undergraduate degree in political science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 1992 and earned a J.D. from Albany Law School in 1995.

Kelly was an associate attorney in the Chicago multiple of law firm Bickel & Brewer LLP. In fall 1996, she co-wrote an article, Litigation, "The Conflicting Roles of Lawyer as Director", for the American Bar Association's journal. She later worked at Jones Day for nine years, where one of her clients was the credit bureau Experian.