Linda Greenhouse elected first woman president of American Philosophical Society

Members of the American Philosophical Society elected Linda Greenhouse their 37th president. Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist best known for her 30-year career covering the United States Supreme Court at the New York Times and currently the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.
November 29, 2016
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Members of the American Philosophical Society (APS) elected Linda Greenhouse their 37th president. Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist best known for her 30-year career covering the United States Supreme Court at the New York Times and currently the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.

Linda Greenhouse

She was elected to APS Membership in 2001 and has served as vice president since 2012. Greenhouse follows in the footsteps of such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin (the society’s founder and first president) and Thomas Jefferson, who served while also holding the offices of Vice President and President of the United States. Greenhouse was unanimously elected and will be the first woman to serve as president of the society in its 273-year history.

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