Laura Ingraham: From Small-Town Roots to Cable News Star and Mother of Three
Born in 1963 in Glastonbury, Connecticut, Laura Ingraham was raised in a working-class family. After graduating from Glastonbury High, she attended Dartmouth College, becoming the first female editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review.
A summer job writing speeches for the Reagan administration led her to Washington, followed by law school at the University of Virginia and clerkships with top federal judges, including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In the mid-1990s, Ingraham shifted to media, hosting shows on MSNBC and radio before launching The Ingraham Angle on Fox News in 2017, which quickly became a top-rated program.
She’s also a bestselling author and co-founder of the conservative site LifeZette. Though never married, Ingraham has been publicly linked to several prominent figures. She ended an engagement in 2005 after a breast cancer diagnosis but later announced her recovery.
A strong advocate for adoption, she is a single mother to three adopted children—one from Guatemala and two from Russia—whom she raises in Washington, D.C., while continuing her career in media.