Jan Crawford Greenburg
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Jan Crawford Greenburg (born c. 1965), a University of Chicago Law School alumna, is the senior legal correspondent for ABC News in Washington and writes a blog titled "Legalities." [1] She previously was legal affairs editor for the Chicago Tribune and provided legal analysis on the Supreme Court of the United States for the PBS program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Her book on the modern Supreme Court and its Justices, Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court, was published in 2007 and became a New York Times bestseller.
Greenburg grew up on a farm in rural Alabama and later went to the University of Alabama graduating in 1987. Upon graduation she joined the Chicago Tribune as a reporter and eventually went to law school. Greenburg graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993 and ultimately ended up covering legal affairs for the Tribune after her graduation.
Greenburg is married to Douglas N. Greenburg, a partner at Latham & Watkins, with whom she has four children, Carolyn, Louisa, Jack and Page. She lives in Washington D.C. and travels to Alabama with her children.
[edit] Books
- Greenburg, Jan. (2007). Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control for the United States Supreme Court. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1-59420-101-1

