Susan Hendricks (born August 29, 1973) is an anchor for HLN and substitute anchor for CNN based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta. Hendricks also used to appear occasionally on CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s on-demand broadband news service. She also fills in for Robin Meade on Morning Express with Robin Meade.
Hendricks was raised in New Brunswick, New Jersey and graduated in 1991 from the Hun School of Princeton in Princeton, New Jersey. She earned a bachelor's degree in mass communications from Arizona State University.
Hendricks decided to pursue a career in television journalism after hearing Walter Cronkite speak in one of her journalism courses at Arizona State University. She started her news career in Orange County, California at Comcast Cable then headed to KESQ in Palm Springs where she was a field reporter. It was at KESQ that Hendricks was able to meet the source of her inspiration, and interviewed Walter Cronkite for a piece on KESQ.