- Maddow received a bachelor's degree in public policy from Stanford University. She earned her doctorate in political science at Oxford University, which she attended on a Rhodes Scholarship.
- First openly gay TV personality to host a prime-time news program in the U.S.
- She first gained national prominence as a host on Air America Radio, where she worked from its inception in 2004. Prior to joining AAR, she worked for WRNX in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and WRSI in Northampton, Massachusetts.
- Maddow was honored by the Interfaith Alliance with the 2010 Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom award.
- Her paternal grandfather was from a Jewish family from Ukraine and Lithuania, while her paternal grandmother was of Dutch (Protestant) descent. Her mother, whose family is from Newfoundland, Canada, has English and Irish (Catholic) ancestry.
- Maddow was named MSNBC political analyst in January of 2008.
- Rachel Maddow IS Vesper Fairchild the sardonic Voice of Gotham, CW's " Batwoman.".
- "The Rachel Maddow Show" has been nominated by the Television Critics Association for "Outstanding Achievement in News and Information", and TRMS received a GLAAD award in 2010.
- Her MSNBC documentary "The Assassination of Dr. Tiller" won a Gracie award in 2011. It covered the May 31, 2009, murder of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers, by Scott Roeder, 52, of Kansas City, Missouri.
- Partner since 1999 of photographer Susan Mikula. Their first date was celebrated at a gun range.
- First came out about her lesbianism at age 17.
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