Annette Gordon-Reed
| Annette Gordon-Reed | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Annette Gordon November 19, 1958 Livingston, Texas |
| Alma mater |
Dartmouth College Harvard Law School |
| Occupation |
Professor Author |
| Employer |
Harvard Law School Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study |
| Known for | American Legal History, American Slavery and the Law |
| Spouse(s) | Judge Robert Reed |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | National Book Award for Nonfiction |
Annette Gordon-Reed (born November 19, 1958, in Livingston, Texas), is an American historian and law professor. At Harvard University, she holds the Charles Warren Professorship in American Legal History, and is the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson regarding his relationship with Sally Hemings and her children. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Book Award for Nonfiction and 15 other prizes in 2009 for her work on the Hemings family of Monticello, and in 2010 she received the National Humanities Medal and was named a MacArthur Fellow.
Gordon-Reed was born in Texas to Bettye Jean Gordon and Alfred Gordon. She became interested in Thomas Jefferson as a student in elementary school. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 1981 and Harvard Law School in 1984, where she was a member of the Harvard Law Review.
Gordon-Reed is married to Hon. Robert R. Reed, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, whom she met while at Harvard Law School. She lives on the Upper West Side of New York with her husband and two children, Gordon and Susan.
Gordon-Reed spent her early career as an associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, and as Counsel to the New York City Board of Corrections. She speaks or moderates at numerous conferences across the country on history and law-related topics. She was previously Wallace Stevens Professor of Law at New York Law School (1992–2010) and Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University, Newark (2007–2010). In 2010, she joined Harvard University with joint appointments in history and law, and as Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2012, she was appointed the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at HLS. In 2014, she was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor at Queen's College, University or Oxford.
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