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Holmes was born in Lusaka, Zambia, to an African father and a white American mother.<ref name="ref1">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uLzYGgj4jE|title=Amy Holmes Pt. 1 – The Q&A Cafe with Carol Joynt|date=31 December 1969|work=YouTube|accessdate=7 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=''People Magazine'' |date=May 8, 2000 |accessdate=January 31, 2009 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20131159,00.html |title=Amy Holmes: Political Commentator }}</ref> She was raised in her mother's native Seattle, Washington, after her parents divorced, when she was three.<ref name="ref1"/> | Holmes was born in Lusaka, Zambia, to an African father and a white American mother.<ref name="ref1">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uLzYGgj4jE|title=Amy Holmes Pt. 1 – The Q&A Cafe with Carol Joynt|date=31 December 1969|work=YouTube|accessdate=7 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=''People Magazine'' |date=May 8, 2000 |accessdate=January 31, 2009 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20131159,00.html |title=Amy Holmes: Political Commentator }}</ref> She was raised in her mother's native Seattle, Washington, after her parents divorced, when she was three.<ref name="ref1"/> | ||
Holmes received a | Holmes received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in economics from Princeton University in 1994. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She is an independent conservative.<ref name=cnn/> | ||
She has guest co-hosted '' | She has guest co-hosted ''The View''<ref>{{cite news |title=Hot Topics but No Heated Discussions As Amy Holmes Sits In on 'The View' |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/27/AR2006112701663.html |authorlink1=Amy Argetsinger |first1=Amy |last1=Argetsinger |authorlink2=Roxanne Roberts |first2=Roxanne |last2=Roberts |date=November 28, 2006 |work=Washington Post |accessdate=2011-04-27}} (in The Reliable Source)</ref> and co-hosted Fox News' ''Glenn Beck'' while Beck was on the road with his "Unelectable" show. She has also appeared on the HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher. She was an anchor of a morning radio program syndicated by the ''Washington Times'' newspaper called "America's Morning News". She has appeared with Cenk Uygur on ''MSNBC Live'', and on ''Reliable Sources'', Morning Joe, and Media Buzz. | ||
After working for several years for | After working for several years for Independent Women's Forum, from 2003 to 2006, Holmes wrote Senate floor statements for Bill Frist, a two-term United States Senator from Tennessee and Republican Majority Leader.<ref name=sitdown>{{citation|url = http://blip.tv/thebcast/blaze-editor-in-chief-scott-baker-sits-down-with-blaze-gbtv-news-anchor-amy-holmes-5457482|title = Blaze Editor-In-Chief Scott Baker Sits Down with Blaze GBTV News Anchor Amy Holmes|publisher = The B-Cast with Scott Baker & Liz Stephans|date = August 10, 2011|first1 = Scott|last1 = Baker|authorlink1 = Scott Baker (journalist)|first2 = Liz|last2 = Stephans|format = podcast}}</ref> | ||
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