Trivia

Founding member of CNBC, helping to launch the network in 1989.

Earned a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from California State University at Northridge in 1980 along with her co-anchor Bill Griffeth and, in 2003, she was honored with the University's Distinguished Alumni Award.

Her husband, Daniel Herera, is a physician, since 1999.

She was hired by General Electric's Jack Welch to work at NBC as the first employee of CNBC.

Born on November 15, 1957 in Spokane, Washington, she grew up in Brentwood, California, where her father was a shoe wholesaler and her mother was a housewife.

In 2002, she became the mother of twin girls and, a year later, a son.