Sue Herera

Sue Herera (née Susan McMahon, born November 15, 1957) is an American journalist and business news television anchor.

Early life and education
Herera was born in Spokane, Washington. She grew up in Brentwood, California, where her father was a shoe wholesaler and her mother was a housewife. In 1980, Herera earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from California State University, Northridge (CSUN).

Career 
After graduating from CSUN, she was an intern at the KNXT TV station in Los Angeles (now KCBS-TV). Then, in 1981, she was hired by Financial News Network (FNN), a cable TV station that had just launched that year, as an associate producer and writer covering the futures markets. Herera credits this role at FNN with teaching her how the markets work. She soon began anchoring at the station.

She has described cold-calling Michael Eskridge, the head of NBC's new cable channel CNBC, in the late 1980s and asking him for a job interview. Herera was among CNBC's founding members when it launched in 1989. Since then, she has anchored and co-anchored CNBC shows Market Wrap, Business Tonight, The Edge, The Money Wheel, Business Center, and Power Lunch. 

In 2015, Herera became the anchor for the Nightly Business Report TV show and was joined in 2018 by co-anchor Bill Griffeth, who had previously worked with her on Power Lunch. The Nightly Business Report show made its final broadcast in December 2019.

Herera featured 14 successful women investment professionals for her book Women of the Street: Making It on Wall Street — The World's Toughest Business, published by Wiley in 1997.

CSUN named Herera a 2003 honoree in the university's Distinguished Alumni Awards Program for her outstanding achievements. In January 2019, Herera marked 30 years with CNBC.

Personal life
Sue met Daniel Herera in Los Angeles when he was a television news cameraman and they were working on assignment together. They married in 1984. He became a Doctor of Medicine in 1999. The couple adopted twin girls from China in 2002, and in 2005 Herera gave birth to a son.

References

External links
CNBC profile

Category:American television news anchors
Category:California State University, Northridge alumni
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Category:1957 births
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:American women television journalists
Category:CNBC people
Category:Television anchors from Spokane, Washington
Category:Journalists from California
Category:People from Brentwood, Los Angeles
Category:Women business and financial journalists
Category:American business and financial journalists