She has been a reporter with The New York Times since 1978
She was graduated from Radcliffe College, where she was elected to Phi
Beta Kappa, and was an editor of The Harvard Crimson. She holds a
Master of Studies in Law degree from the Yale Law School.
For her coverage of the Court, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in
Journalism (beat reporting) in 1998.
In 2004, she received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in
Journalism from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the
John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Annenberg
School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her husband is a prominent attorney widely regarded as a leading expert
in military law.