Gretchen Carlson joined FOX News Channel (FNC) as an anchor in June 2005. Carlson is co-anchor of the network's live morning show and cable's number one morning program, "FOX & Friends." Prior to joining FNC, Carlson worked at CBS News where she served as a news correspondent and co-anchored the "CBS Saturday Early Show."

While at CBS, Carlson covered breaking news events including the Columbia space shuttle disaster, the capture of the Washington D.C. sniper, the World Trade Center attack on September 11th and the execution of Timothy McVeigh. Internationally, Carlson reported from the G-8 Summit in Genoa, Italy.

Before her tenure at CBS, Carlson served as a weekend anchor and reporter for KXAS-TV in Dallas, TX, was an anchor and reporter at WOIO-TV in Cleveland, OH, and for WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. She began her television career in Richmond, VA as a political reporter for WRIC-TV.

Carlson has received three American Women in Radio and Television National Awards (Gracie Awards), including her most recent prize, Best Network Feature. Her previous awards were for her coverage of daycare security issues and domestic violence.

In 1989, before starting her television career, she was the first classical violinist to be crowned Miss America. In 1990, Carlson graduated with honors from Stanford University and also studied at Oxford University in England.

Carlson is a national celebrity spokesperson for the March of Dimes and continues to be an advocate of the arts. She currently resides in Connecticut with her husband and two children.