Linda Greenhouse

Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse in San Francisco in 2005
Born	Linda Joyce Greenhouse (1947-01-09) January 9, 1947 (age 70) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Journalist
Known for	Pulitzer Prize winner
Spouse(s)	Eugene R. Fidell (m. 1981)
Children	Hannah Fidell

Linda Joyce Greenhouse (born January 9, 1947) is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow at Yale Law School. She is a Pulitzer Prize winning liberal / progressivereporter who covered the United States Supreme Court for nearly three decades for The New York Times.

Greenhouse was born in New York City to H. Robert Greenhouse and Dorothy (née Greenlick). She received her BA degree in government from Radcliffe College in 1968, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School in 1978.

Greenhouse began her 40-year career at The New York Times covering state government in the paper's bureau in Albany. After completing her Master's degree on a Ford Foundation fellowship, she returned to the Times and covered 29 sessions of the Supreme Court from 1978 to 2007, with the exception of two years during the mid-1980s during which she covered Congress. Since 1981, she has authored over 2,800 articles for The New York Times. She has been a regular guest on the PBS program Washington Week.

In 2008, Greenhouse accepted an offer from The Times for an early retirement at the end of the Supreme Court session in the summer of 2008. Seven of the nine sitting Justices attended a goodbye party for Greenhouse on June 12, 2008. She continues to blog for The Times in the "Opinionator" section.

In 2010, Greenhouse and co-author Reva Siegel put out a book on the development of the abortion debate prior to the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on the subject: Before Roe v. Wade. This was largely a selection of primary documents, though with some commentary.