Jan Crawford Biography
Jan Crawford is a TV journalist, author, and lawyer. She previously worked for ABC News as a political correspondent and chief legal correspondent. She appears on the CBS Evening News, Face the Nation, CBS This Morning, and CBS News Sunday Morning on a regular basis.
She was in charge of CBS News’ coverage of the 2012 Presidential Elections. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the New York Times bestselling author of Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court.
Jan Crawford Age
She is 57 years old as of 2022. She was born in 1965 in Alabama, United States.
Jan Crawford Education
Crawford grew up on a farm in Baileyton, Alabama, and went on to graduate from Albert P. Brewer High School, the University of Alabama in 1987, and the University of Chicago Law School in 1993.
Is Jan Crawford still Married? – Husband
She is a member of the New York bar and married to Chicago native and attorney Douglas Greenburg. They live in Washington, DC with their four children; Carolyn Greenburg, born in 1997, Louisa Greenberg, born in 1998, Page Greenberg, born in 2003, and a son, Jack Greenburg, born in 2001.
Jan Crawford Book
The book is an in-depth and unvarnished examination of the formation of the current United States Supreme Court, as well as a firsthand account of the coordinated campaign to move the Court in a more conservative direction.
Jan Crawford Net Worth
Crawford has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Is Jan Crawford still with CBS News? – Career
Greenburg recently spoke with Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. and Justice John Paul Stevens. Chief Justice Roberts discussed the court, his views on the law, and his life since taking office in his first television interview. Ms. Greenburg interviewed 86-year-old Justice John Paul Stevens for the first time on network television. Justice Stevens reflected on his memories of former President Gerald R. Ford, who appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1975.
Ms. Greenburg’s Supreme Court book, Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court, was published by Penguin Press in January 2007. In 1998, she became the “NewsHour’s” Supreme Court analyst, providing live, gavel-to-gavel coverage of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings on PBS. Her exclusive reports and insider accounts of the nominations drew widespread praise. She has provided commentary on a variety of legal issues for other network and cable news programs in addition to her work on NewsHour and CBS.
Ms. Greenburg began covering legal affairs for the Tribune in 1993, after graduating from the University of Chicago Law School. She received the Tribune’s top reporting award in 2001 as part of a team of reporters who covered the 2000 presidential election and subsequent legal battles for the White House.
Ms. Greenburg previously worked for the Chicago Tribune as a national legal affairs reporter, as the Supreme Court correspondent for PBS’ “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” and as a legal analyst for CBS’ “Evening News” and “Face the Nation.” She covered the Supreme Court and national legal issues, including judicial appointments and confirmation battles.
In 1994, she began covering the Supreme Court for the Chicago Tribune. She returned to Alabama, where she grew up on a cattle ranch, in 1996 to report and write a 13-part series on the South a generation after the civil rights movement. Ms. Greenburg once again received the Tribune’s top reporting award for her efforts.