Jan Crawford

Jan Crawford
Jan Crawford at Miller Center, 2010
Born
Alabama, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Alabama (BA)
University of Chicago (JD)
OccupationJournalist
EmployerCBS News
Notable creditSupreme Conflict
SpouseDouglas Greenburg
Children4[1]

Jan Crawford Greenburg[1] is an American television journalist, author, and attorney. She serves as a political correspondent and chief legal correspondent for CBS News and previously for ABC News. She appears regularly on the CBS Evening News, Face the Nation, CBS This Morning, and CBS News Sunday Morning. She led CBS News's coverage of the 2012 Presidential Elections. She is a New York Times bestselling author of Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court and also a member of the New York State Bar Association.[2]

Early life and education

Crawford grew up on a farm in Baileyton, Alabama. She graduated from Albert P. Brewer High School, then enrolled at the University of Alabama, where she obtained her Bachelor of Arts in 1987. Crawford graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993.[2][3]

Career

She joined the Chicago Tribune as a reporter in 1987. After graduating from law school, she began covering legal affairs for the Tribune, which put her on the Supreme Court beat in 1994.[2] In 1996, she won the Tribune's top reporting award for her work in a 13-part series on the South a generation after the civil rights movement. In 2001, her work was honored with the Tribune's top reporting award.[2] In his first television interview, Chief Justice John Roberts talked to Crawford about the court, his views on the law, and his life since taking office. Justice John Paul Stevens also chose Crawford for his first network television interview, reflecting on his memories of the man who appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1975, former President Gerald R. Ford, on the occasion of Ford's funeral.[2]

From 1998 until 2007, Crawford provided legal analysis on the Supreme Court for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She helped to provide live, gavel-to-gavel coverage on PBS of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito,[2] and served as the Supreme Court analyst for Face the Nation on CBS.[3] From 2007 to 2009, she had been senior legal correspondent for ABC and wrote a blog titled "Legalities." In 2010, she began work for CBS, with a blog called "Crossroads." Currently she is the chief legal and political correspondent for CBS.[4]

Crawford has taught journalism at American University and frequently speaks about the court to universities, law schools, legal organizations, and civic groups.[2]

Personal life

She is married to Douglas Greenburg, who graduated from University of Chicago Law School with her in 1993.[5] They have four children.[1][5]

Bibliography

  • Jan Crawford Greenburg, Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court New York : Penguin Press, 2007. ISBN 9781594201011

References

  1. ^ a b c "ABOUT JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG". Forum on Law, Culture & Society. Fordham University School of Law. Archived from the original on June 27, 2015. Retrieved June 26, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Greenburg bio". ABC Medianet. Archived from the original on June 2, 2008.
  3. ^ a b "Crawford bio". 2007 National Book Festival. Library of Congress. Archived from the original on August 2, 2008.
  4. ^ "Jan Crawford". CBS News. February 1, 2012. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012. Retrieved September 17, 2012. Jan Crawford is CBS News' Political Correspondent. She also serves as CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent and contributes regularly to the "CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley," "CBS This Morning," and "Face The Nation," as well as CBS Radio News and CBSNews.com.
  5. ^ a b "Jan Crawford, '93 and Douglas Greenburg, '93: Reporting and Litigating". University of Chicago Law School. Retrieved May 9, 2024.