Jan Crawford Greenburg

Jan Crawford Greenburg is an ABC News Correspondent based in Washington, D.C. where she covers the Supreme Court and provides legal analysis for all ABC News broadcasts.

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Prior to joining ABC, Ms. Greenburg was the national legal affairs reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where she covered the Supreme Court and national legal issues, including judicial appointments and confirmation battles. She currently is writing a book on the Court for Penguin Press, to be published in winter 2007.

Ms. Greenburg joined the Tribune in 1987, and began covering legal affairs in 1993 after her graduation from the University of Chicago Law School. She won the Tribune's top reporting award in 2001, as part of a team of reporters who covered the 2000 presidential election and the subsequent legal battles over the White House. In 1996, she returned to Alabama, where she grew up on a cattle farm, to report and write a 13-part series on the South, a generation after the civil rights movement. Again, Ms. Greenburg won the Tribune's top reporting award for her work.

Ms. Greenburg graduated from the University of Alabama in 1987. She has taught journalism at American University and frequently speaks about the Court to universities, law schools, legal organizations and civic groups across the country. She is a member of the New York bar. Ms. Greenburg is married to Douglas Greenburg, a Chicago native and attorney. They have four children and live in Washington, D.C.