ABC TV's Greenburg to be law school graduation speaker

MARCH 3, 2008 - - ABC News Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg will serve as speaker at the Charleston School of Law's second commencement ceremony on May 10, Dean Andy Abrams announced today.

"Our students will love hearing from Ms. Greenburg, whose penetrating analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court in her book from last year highlighted how the court was moving in a more conservative direction," he said. "We're honored to have a journalist, lawyer and author of her caliber to join - and inspire - us at graduation."

Ms. Greenburg, who covers the Supreme Court and national legal issues for ABC News in Washington, D.C., is author of Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court. It was published in January 2007 by Penguin Press.

A graduate of the University of Chicago Law School (1993) and the University of Alabama (1987), Ms. Greenburg is a veteran reporter who has covered legal affairs for the Chicago Tribune and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. She also served as a legal analyst for the CBS Evening News and its weekly Face the Nation public affairs show.

A member of the New York bar, Ms. Greenberg and her husband Douglas have four children and live in Washington, D.C.

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