Jan Crawford Biography
Jan Crawford is an American journalist, author, and attorney who currently serves as CBS News chief legal correspondent and political correspondent. She contributes regularly to the CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning, and Face the Nation, as well as CBS News Radio and CBSNews.com, and CBS News Sunday Morning in Washington, DC. Prior to CBS News, Crawford served at ABC News.
She led CBS News’s coverage of the 2012 Presidential Elections. Her book Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court was a New York Times bestseller. She is also a member of the New York State Bar Association.
Jan Crawford Age
Crawford is around 57 years old as of the year 2022, she was born in 1965, in Alabama, United States of America. Her exact date of birth is not yet known to the public. However, this makes it difficult for us to know her exact age, and when she celebrates her birthday. This section will be updated as soon as the information is available. She is an American by nationality and she belongs to the white ethnicity.
Jan Crawford Height
Crawford stands at an average height. She has not shared her exact height with the public. However, this section will be updated as soon as the information regarding her exact height is available.
Jan Crawford Education
After elementary education, Crawford attended Albert P. Brewer High School. She then joined the University of Alabama and graduated in 1987 and later joined the University of Chicago Law School and graduated in 1993.
Crawford has taught journalism at American University and frequently speaks about the Court to universities, law schools, legal organizations and civic groups across the country. She is a member of the New York Bar. She and her family live in Washington D.C. After graduating from law school, she covered legal affairs for the Tribune and even won the Tribune’s top reporting award.
Jan Crawford Family
Crawford was born and raised by her parents Jacquie Patricia (mother) and her father, who was a farmer and yet to be identified in Alabama, United States of America. She grew up in farms. However, details regarding her siblings are not known to the public. This section will be updated as soon as the information is available.
Jan Crawford Husband
Crawford is married to Douglas N. Greenburg, who is the partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington DC. He now works in the Litigation department. Greenburg specializes in internal corporate investigations and represents clients in connection with SEC investigations.
The couple met for the first time at the University of Chicago Law School. However, they never shared a warm greeting during the entire session of their college life. They interacted on the last day of their third year. Well, their love story started blooming from their short chatting at the graduation party.
However, on the same night of the graduation, Crawford asked Greenburg to join her for a Bulls-Sun NBA Playoff game. But unfortunately, Greenburg said that his mother is having a graduation party for him that night. But he told her that he couldn’t make it.
Soon after just knowing each other for two months, the couple was deeply and madly in love with each other. Just after two months of knowing each other, the couple got engaged in August and married in the following month of September. Crawford has not revealed when they exactly married but we guess it could be around 1993-1994 immediately after their graduation.
Jan Crawford Children
Crawford together with her husband are blessed with four grown-up children namely; Carolyn Greenburg, (25 years old), Louisa Greenburg (23 years old), Jack Greenburg, (21 years old) and Page Greenburg (18 years old). All these ages are as of September 2022.
Jan Crawford Salary
Crawford earns an average annual salary of $77,871, but the range typically falls between $43k – $185k. This is according to CBS News correspondent salaries in Washington DC. However, their salaries vary mainly according to the level of seniority of the journalist in question. Crawford could be earning slightly above the average mark. We will keep tabs and update her exact salary once it is available.
Jan Crawford Net Worth
Crawford’s net worth is estimated to be in the range of $1 Million – $5 Million as of 2022. She has accumulated her fortunes through her primary source of income as a broadcast journalist and in the other businesses she has invested in.
Jan Crawford CBS News
Crawford currently serves as CBS News chief legal correspondent and political correspondent. She contributes regularly to the CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning, and Face the Nation, as well as CBS News Radio and CBSNews.com, and CBS News Sunday Morning in Washington, DC. Prior to CBS News, Crawford served at ABC News. However, Crawford published a blog titled Legalities while serving as a senior legal correspondent for ABC from 2007 to 2009.
In October 2009, she began working for CBS News. From 2005 to 2006, she had been a regular contributor to CBS News. She is a highly regarded professional on the Supreme Court whose 2007 book, “Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for the Control of the United States Supreme Court” (Penguin Press), received critical acclaim and became an instant New York Times Bestseller. She began working for CBS in 2010 with a blog called Crossroads.
In 1994 is when Crawford began covering the Court for the Chicago Tribune. . In the course of her work, she has covered covering the majority of significant judicial nominations and confirmation hearings over the past 15 years and she has developed crucial sources in the White House, the Justice Department, and Congress along the way.
Crawford began her journalistic career at the Tribune in 1987, joining the legal affairs beat in 1993, after her graduation from the University. However, the newspaper awarded her its highest award in 2001, for her role on a team of reporters covering the 2000 presidential election and the legal disputes over the White House. She won the same prize for the 13-part series she wrote about the South after the civil rights movement, a project that took her back to her native Alabama.
Jan Crawford Body Measurements and Facts
- Full Names: Jan Crawford Greenburg
- Career / Profession: Journalist, author, and attorney
- Nationality: American
- Ethnicity: White
- Sexual Orientation: Straight
- Age: 57 years old as of the year 2022
- Zodiac Sign: Under Review
- Date of Birth: 1965
- Place of Birth: Alabama
- Birthday: Under Review
- Body Measurements: Under Review
- Height: Under Review
- Weight: Under Review
- Marital Status: Married
- Husband/Spouse: Douglas N. Greenburg
- Children: Four
- Net Worth: Estimated to be in the range of $1 Million – $5 Million as of 2022
- Salary: Average annual salary of $77,871
Jan Crawford House
Crawford resides in Washington D.C, United States of America.
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