Cause Magazine Amy Holmes Amy Holmes is a familiar face to political news junkies.


She often appears as a panelist or political contributor on cable channels like Fox News, CNN, MSNBC and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. She has even co-hosted ABC's The View. Currently, she is most regularly seen as a news anchor on Glenn Beck's web TV network, GBTV. Politically, she describes herself as an independent conservative. Holmes is articulate and thoughtful, and while steadfast in her opinions, she brings a little more flavor to viewpoints that have traditionally been more often expressed by white males on televi- sion. As a pundit, particularly on CNN and Real Time with Bill Maher, she plays the right-leaning foil to a long list of liberal guests and panelists. As she told interviewer Carol Joynt of the Q & A cafe, "Sometimes I feel I'm in the smallest club in the uni- verse. I'm an African American female conservative." Ironically, she is also one of the only commentators that has some back- ground parallels with Barak Obama: Her father was also born in Africa (and he did not have a hand in raising her); her mother is Caucasian American; and she attended an Ivy League School.


Holmes was born in Lusaka, Zambia in 1973. At the age of three, she came to live in America when her mother moved back to Seattle. She was a bright child and did well in school. As a young woman, she had an interest in the music industry and initially thought she would pursue a career in that area. She took classes in business and economics and enjoyed classes in subject areas like cost analysis, which she says help to "discipline the mind" and show you how to look at solving problems in the most efficient way. She graduated from Princeton University with a BA in economics in 1994. After graduation, Holmes got more involved in politics and communications. After working for several years for Independent Women's Forum, she began to write Senate floor statements for


Bill Frist, a two-term United States Senator from Tennessee and the Republican Majority Leader from 2003 until 2006. Although she had voted for Bill Clinton in the '92 election, she found herself switching sides as the years went on. As she began to extol the virtues of limited government and free markets, she began to find a niche for herself in the public forum.


The budding broadcaster got a gig as an anchor of a morning radio program syndicated by the Washington Times newspaper called "America's Morning News." She also appeared with Cenk Uygur on MSNBC Live and still appears an independent political contributor for CNN from time to time. Her biggest break was co-hosting Fox News' Glenn Beck while Beck was on the road with his "Unelectable" show. Then when Beck recently left Fox, he offered her the anchor position on his fledgling new web TV venture. Up for a new challenge, her official role for Beck will be as the anchor of several news segments on GBTV throughout the day. The segments will carry the brand of The Blaze, Beck's news website. Pragmatic Amy Holmes is undoubtedly taking a strategic approach to her career, honing her talents in the new frontier of online communications. Who knows where she will go from here. As her former boss FOX News chief Roger Ailes says, "She's opinionated but not as predictable as most, and when she expresses strong opinions, you don't dislike her. She's got a softly defiant quality."


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