Jan Crawford Biography
Jan Crawford is an attorney, author, and television journalist. She previously worked for ABC News and now works for CBS News as a political journalist and chief legal correspondent.
Jan Crawford Age
Crawford is 57 years old as of 2022. She was born in 1965 in Alabama, United States.
Jan Crawford Height
Crawford stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches.
Jan Crawford Family
Crawford’s family and she live in Washington, D.C.
Jan Crawford Wife
Crawford is married to Douglas N. Greenburg, who graduated from the University of Chicago Law School alongside her in 1993.
Jan Crawford Education
Crawford earned his bachelor’s degree in 1987 from the University of Alabama. She has taught journalism at American University and speaks on the Supreme Court at universities, law schools, legal organizations, and civic groups all over the country. She is a lawyer who is a member of the New York Bar Association.
Jan Crawford Weight Loss
Crawford has yet to reveal her weight or weight-loss plan. Nonetheless, we will update her physical measurements as soon as we obtain these facts.
Jan Crawford Salary
Crawford earns an annual salary of $100 thousand.
Jan Crawford Net Worth
Crawford has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Jan Crawford Political Party
In 1987, she began working as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. She began covering legal affairs for the Tribune after graduating from law school, and in 1994, she was assigned to the Supreme Court beat. Her work in a 13-part series on the South a generation after the civil rights struggle earned her the Tribune’s best reporting prize in 1996. Her work was recognized with the Tribune’s outstanding reporting prize in 2001.
Chief Justice John Roberts spoke with Crawford in his first televised interview on the court, his views on the law, and his life since assuming office. On the occasion of former President Gerald R. Ford’s funeral, Justice John Paul Stevens picked Crawford for his first network television interview, reminiscing on his memories of the man who appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1975, former President Gerald R. Ford.
Jan Crawford Career
Crawford began working for CBS News in October of 2009. From 2005 to 2006, she was a regular contributor to CBS News. She is a well-known Supreme Court expert whose 2007 book, “Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court” (Penguin Press), received widespread acclaim and quickly became a New York Times bestseller. She began covering the Court for the Chicago Tribune in 1994 and has since worked as a law and politics correspondent for all ABC News programs, as well as a Supreme Court commentator for PBS’ The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer and a legal analyst for CBS News’ “CBS Evening News” and “Face the Nation.”
She has covered nearly all of the major judicial nominations and confirmation hearings over the last 15 years, gaining access to key sources in the White House, Justice Department, and Congress. Crawford was granted her first network television interview by Chief Justice John Roberts, one of the few interviews she was able to secure with five current members of the Supreme Court, as well as retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Crawford also spoke with Justice John Paul Stevens, who was 86 at the time, as well as Justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and Stephen Breyer, in his first broadcast interview.
Crawford’s in-depth stories on the Bush administration’s legal war on terror, as well as her exclusive findings on controversial interrogation techniques used on terror detainees, have garnered widespread praise and have been credited with sparking legislative hearings. She was designated one of Washington’s top journalists by Washingtonian Magazine. Crawford began her career as a reporter at the Chicago Tribune in 1987, and after graduating from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993, she moved to the legal affairs beat. Crawford received the newspaper’s top honor in 2001 for her work as part of a team of reporters covering the 2000 presidential election and the court fights over the White House. She received the same award for her 13-part series on the post-civil rights South, which took her back to her home state of Alabama.
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