11/18/05—A full house welcomed Linda Greenhouse to the Law School campus on Friday, November 18. Greenhouse took questions for over an hour, and commented on a wide range of subjects relating to her years as a New York Times reporter covering the U.S. Supreme Court, including the progression of her career, the current make up of the Court, and some of the Court's most interesting recent cases. Greenhouse received the Law School's Distinguished Service Award at the event for her many contributions to the legal profession and to society.

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Linda Greenhouse began covering the Supreme Court for The New York Times in 1978. With the exception of two years during the mid-1980's, during which she covered Congress, she has been the paper's Supreme Court correspondent ever since. Previously, she covered local and state government and politics for the Times in New York, and was chief of the newspaper's legislative bureau in Albany. She has appeared as a Washington Week panelist since 1980. She is the author of the book Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey.

She is a graduate of Radcliffe College, where she currently serves on the advisory committee to the Schlesinger Library on the History of American Women. She earned a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, and has several honorary degrees.

For her coverage of the Court, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism (beat reporting) in 1998. In 2004, she received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.