Linda Greenhouse
Supreme Court Correspondent
The New York Times
Linda Greenhouse has been the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times since 1978. She is also a senior writer for the Times. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in journalism (beat reporting) in 1998. Her biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun, was published in 2005 by Times Books/Henry Holt and issued in paperback in 2006.
Greenhouse graduated from Radcliffe College at Harvard, where she was an editor of the Harvard Crimson and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She was a Ford Foundation Fellow at Yale Law School where she earned a Master of Studies in Law degree. She has received honorary degrees from Georgetown, Brown, Colgate, Northeastern and Binghamton (SUNY) Universities; along with the University of Miami, the City University of New York, and Skidmore College.
Greenhouse is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where she serves on the council, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. In addition, she is a past president of the Women’s Forum of Washington, D.C. and serves on the council of the Schlesinger Library on the History of American Women, at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
She appears regularly on the PBS program Washington Week. In 2002, the American Law Institute, of which she is an honorary member, awarded her the Henry L. Friendly medal for contributions to the law. In addition, she received the Golden Pen Award from the Legal Writing Institute as well as the American Political Science Association’s Carey McWilliams Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.”
Among her many awards and honors, she received the 2007 Yale Law School Association’s Award of Merit, the law school’s highest honor.
The Honorable Phillip Rapoza was appointed as Chief Justice of the Appeals Court in 2006. Previously, he served as Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, and Associate Justice of the Fall River District Court. He was an assistant district attorney in Suffolk and Bristol Counties before entering private practice. Chief Justice Rapoza received his B.A. magna cum laude from Yale College and his J.D. from Cornell University Law School.
Chief Justice Rapoza is a recognized leader in international justice, particularly in the Portuguese-speaking world. Beginning in 1997, he traveled to Mozambique where he served as one of three experts heading a court development project in the capital city of Maputo. In that same year, he formed the Commission for Justice Across the Atlantic, a judicial exchange and education program between Portugal and the United States. In 2002, the President of Portugal awarded him the rank of Commander in the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator, for “promoting closer relations between the judicial systems of our two countries.” He is also the recipient of the Medal of International Merit from the Brazilian Court of Appeals in recognition of his “contribution to strengthening the ties of friendship and cooperation between the judicial systems on the American continent.”
From 2003 to 2005, Chief Justice Rapoza took an unpaid leave of absence from the Appeals Court to work for the United Nations, serving as chief international judge of the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor. The Special Panels was a hybrid war crimes tribunal established by the UN to prosecute crimes against humanity and other serious violations of human rights committed in that country during its struggle for independence. After East Timor, Chief Justice Rapoza lived in Haiti, where he led a UN Criminal Justice Advisory Team. Since 2004, he has traveled to Cambodia to serve as a technical expert relative to the war crimes tribunal established to investigate crimes committed during the former Khmer Rouge regime.
Chief Justice Rapoza serves as vice president of the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a member of the Board of International Consultants for the Permanent Latin America Committee for the Review and Implementation of the Minimum Rules of the UN for the Treatment of Prisoners.
