Amy Schneider is an American engineering manager and game show contestant who has won over $1,000,000 on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!, the fourth-most total money and fourth-most consecutive games of any contestant in regular-season play, placing her behind Matt Amodio, James Holzhauer, and Ken Jennings.
Amy Schneider grew up in Dayton, Ohio and in eighth grade was voted “Most likely to appear on Jeopardy!” by her classmates.
Amy Schneider is known for her skill in the Final Jeopardy! round, having responded incorrectly only three times in this run.
As of January 7, 2022, Amy Schneider is the current Jeopardy! champion, with a 28-game winning streak, and she will be the second seed in the Season 38 Tournament of Champions, behind Amodio.
Amy Schneider is the most successful woman and transgender contestant to compete on Jeopardy! and she lives in Oakland, California.
Is Amy Schneider Married?
Amy Schneider was married to Keely Anneken.
Who Is Amy Schneider’s Husband Keely Anneken?
In public, Amy Schneider became a trans woman and had sex-change surgery to become a naturalized woman.
Amy Schneider was married to Kelly Anneken in 2004 and previously identified herself as a guy.
Amy Schneider divorced her husband in 2016 when she began to see herself as a woman and withdrew from him to go through the procedure.