Luncheon Address – Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse
Pulitzer Prize winning, former New York Times Supreme Court Journalist;
author, Becoming Justice Blackmun

Linda Greenhouse covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times between 1978 and 2008. In January 2009 she will become the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow in Law at Yale Law School.

Ms. Greenhouse received several major journalism awards during her 40-year career at the Times, including the Pulitzer Prize (1998) and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Kennedy School (2004). In 2002, the American Political Science Association gave her its Carey McWilliams Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” In 2008, she received the annual award for constitutional commentary from the non-partisan Constitution Project. Her biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun, was published in 2005.

Ms. Greenhouse is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where she serves on the council, and is one of two non-lawyer honorary members of the American Law Institute, which in 2002 awarded her its Henry J. Friendly Medal. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, which in 2005 awarded her its Henry Allen Moe Prize for writing in the humanities and jurisprudence. She also serves on the advisory council of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard).

She is a 1968 graduate of Radcliffe College (Harvard), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School (1978), which she attended on a Ford Foundation fellowship. She is married to Eugene R. Fidell, who is Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in law at Yale. Their daughter, Hannah, is in graduate school in New York.