Lis Wiehl Biography
Lis Wiehl is a New York Times bestselling American fiction and nonfiction author as well as a legal analyst. She is the author of nineteen books, the most recent of which is Hunting the Unabomber: The FBI, Ted Kaczynski, and the Capture of America’s Most Notorious Domestic Terrorist, published by Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins.
How old is Lis Wiehl? – Age
She is 60 years old as of 19 August 2021. She was born in 1961 in Yakima, Washington, United States.
Lis Wiehl Family
She is of Danish and German descent. and is the daughter of Dick Wiehl. Her brother Christopher Wiehl is an American actor. She grew up believing that because she was the daughter of an FBI agent and a third-generation federal prosecutor, the men and women of the FBI were always the good guys. While her father and other FBI agents worked to keep Americans safe, Robert Hanssen worked just as hard to betray the agency to which he had sworn allegiance and the country to which he had sworn allegiance.
Lis Wiehl Education
Wiehl graduated from Yakima’s West Valley High School. She graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, with a bachelor’s degree in 1983, a master’s degree in literature from the University of Queensland in 1985, and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1987.
Who is Lis Wiehl married to? – Husband
She was married to Michael “Mickey” Sherman, a Connecticut-based American criminal defense attorney who is best known as Mickey Sherman. The couple married on June 23, 2006, at an Old Greenwich, Connecticut restaurant. In 2012, she confirmed on a morning talk show that she and Sherman had separated.
Lis Wiehl Bill O’Reilly Settlement
In early 2017, Wiehl made sexual harassment allegations against Bill O’Reilly and received a $32 million settlement from him. Fox News was not a party to the agreement and saw it as a private matter between O’Reilly and Wiehl. They claim they were not informed of the financial stakes. On January 17, 2017, Wiehl signed an affidavit stating that she and O’Reilly had settled their dispute. Her allegations and affidavit detailed sexual harassment, a nonconsensual sexual relationship, and sexually explicit e-mails from O’Reilly. O’Reilly claims that he forwarded these e-mails to Wiehl, his personal lawyer, as part of a process in which he forwarded any threatening e-mails he received to his lawyers.
Lis Wiehl Weight Loss
Wiehl currently weighs 78 kg, and there have been no credible reports of her weight loss.
Lis Wiehl Career
Wiehl practiced law after graduating from Harvard Law School at Perkins Coie, a private law firm in Seattle, where she also wrote by-lined articles on legal issues for the New York Times. She went on to become a third-generation federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office in Seattle. During President Clinton’s impeachment, she was the Deputy Chief Investigative Counsel for Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee. She was a tenured law professor at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle from 1995 to 2001, where she directed the Trial Advocacy Program, which won several national awards during her tenure.
During her time at the University of Washington, Wiehl also worked as a reporter and legal analyst for NPR’s All Things Considered and NBC News. She quickly became in high demand for her commentary. Wiehl worked as a legal analyst for Fox News Channel from 2001 to 2017, appearing weekly on The O’Reilly Factor, Your World with Neil Cavuto, The Kelly File with Megyn Kelly, Lou Dobbs Tonight, and the Imus morning shows. Wiehl was also the host of the Legal Lis radio show as well as the Wiehl of Justice podcast.
Wiehl published her first book, Winning Every Time: How to Use the Skills of a Lawyer in Your Life Trials, in 2005. Two years later, she published The 51 percent Minority: How Women Are Still Not Equal and What You Can Do About It, which won the 2008 Books for a Better Life award in the motivational category. Since then, Wiehl has continued to write best-selling fiction and nonfiction books, including the second in a trilogy titled The Hunting Series, Hunting the Unabomber: The FBI, Ted Kaczynski, and the Capture of America’s Most Notorious Domestic Terrorist, which will be released in 2020.
Wiehl was a 710 WOR co-host of WOR Tonight With Joe Concha & Lis Wiehl and an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School. She continues to appear in the media as a legal expert and commentator for outlets such as CNN, CBS, NBC, and NPR. Lis Wiehl speaks at bookstores, conferences, and literary festivals, as well as lecturing at colleges and universities and serving as a keynote speaker.
Lis Wiehl Books
♦ The Hunting Series
♦ Erica Sparks Series
♦ Stand-alone fiction
♦ Triple Threat Series
♦ The East Salem Trilogy
♦ Mia Quinn Mysteries
♦ Nonfiction