William Bret Baier (born August 4, 1970) is the host of Special Report with Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel and serves as the chief political anchor for Fox. He previously worked as the network's Chief White House Correspondent and Pentagon correspondent.
Baier was born in Rumson, New Jersey. Raised Catholic, he attended Marist High School, a private Roman Catholic high school in Atlanta, GA, graduating in 1988. Baier then attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1992 with a BA degree in political science and English. At DePauw, he became a member of the Xi Chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. One year after pledging, Baier was joined at the Xi Chapter by another future media standout in Stephen F. Hayes, the current Editor in chief of the Weekly Standard. The Xi Chapter of Sigma Chi has a rich history of producing media personalities, and the list of notable alumni also happens to include John McWethy, a longtime correspondent at ABC.