Biography
Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She assumed this position in 2009 after a 40-year career at the New York Times, including 30 years covering the United States Supreme Court. She received numerous journalism awards for her reporting, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association in 2002 for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” Currently, she writes a bi-weekly opinion column on the Supreme Court and law for the New York Times web site.
She is the author of a biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun (2005); Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel, 2010), and The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction, published in 2012 by Oxford, and The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right (with Michael J. Graetz), 2016. Her most recent book, a memoir entitled Just a Journalist, was published in 2017 by Harvard University Press.
Ms. Greenhouse is one of two non-lawyers elected as honorary members of the American Law Institute, which awarded her its Henry J. Friendly Medal in 2002. She is a President of the American Philosophical Society and serves on other non-profit boards, including the Senate of Phi Beta Kappa. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College, Harvard, and recently completed a six-year term as a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers. She holds a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School and has received 13 honorary degrees.
