Linda Greenhouse is Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law and Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence at Yale Law School. She assumed these positions in January 2009 after a 40-year career at the The New York Times, including nearly 30 years covering the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition to full-time teaching at Yale, where her focus is the Supreme Court, she writes a biweekly opinion column for The New York Times web site as a contributing columnist.

In 2017, she became president of the American Philosophical Society, the country’s oldest learned society, to which she was elected in 2001. In 2005, the society awarded her its Henry Allen Moe Prize for writing in jurisprudence and the humanities.

During her journalistic career, she won numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Other awards include the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism (2004); the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism; and the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics” (2002).

She is a former member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers (2009-2015) and of the national board of the American Constitution Society (2010-2016). She currently serves on the Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in the national Senate of Phi Beta Kappa. She is one of two non-lawyers elected to honorary membership in the American Law Institute, which awarded her the Henry Friendly Medal in 2002. She has received 13 honorary degrees.

Among her publications are Becoming Justice Blackmun, a biography of the Justice; Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling (with Reva B. Siegel); The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction; The Burger Court and the Rise of the Judicial Right (with Michael Graetz), and Just a Journalist, a memoir published in 2017 by Harvard University Press.  With Reva B. Siegel, she is the author of a chapter in a recently published book Reproductive Rights and Justice Stories (Foundation Press, 2020). She is a graduate of Radcliffe College (Harvard) and earned a Master of Studies in Law Degree from Yale Law School which in 2007 awarded her the Yale Law School Alumni Association Award of Merit.