- Source of Wealth: Writting
- Age: 68
- Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois
- Marital Status: Married (Kathy Travis)
- Full Name: Susan Lynn “Suze” Orman
- Nationality: American
- Date of Birth: June 5, 1951
- Ethnicity: American
- Occupation: author, financial advisor, motivational speaker, and television host
- Education: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
She was working as a waitress in Berkeley, California before she became a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch. She is a B.A. in social work. In 1983, she became the Vice President of Investments at Prudential Bache Securities. In 1987, she founded the Suze Orman Financial Group. In 2002, her program The Suze Orman Show started airing on CNBC. Her show ran for ten years and it was one of the top ranked shows on CNBC. In 2006, she won a Gracie Award for Outstanding Program Host for The Suze Orman Show on CNBC. She has also written many books on personal finance.
Suze Orman has appeared on television shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, Paula’s Party, and Oprah’s All Stars. She is the creator of the show, “Can I Afford It?” She writes the advice column for the magazine “O”. She is also the writer of Money Matters on Yahoo and the Costco Connection Magazine. Suze is the author of nine New York bestsellers. In 2004 and 2006, she won the Daytime Emmy Awards for hosting the PBS pledge drive specials. Apart from this, Orman has won six Gracie Awards from the Alliance for Women in Media.
In February 2007, she revealed that she is a lesbian. She currently lives with her spouse Kathy Travis.