Background
Biskupic, Joan was born in 1956 in Chicago, MEDIA/COMM0.
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Joan Biskupic
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Bachelor, Marquette U., 1978; Master of Arts, U. Oklahoma, 1986; Juris Doctor, Georgetown University, 1993.
Career
She has been Editor in Charge, Legal Affairs for Reuters since February 2012. From 2000 to 2012 she was the Legal Affairs Correspondent for United States of America Today. From 1992 to 2000, she was the Supreme Court reporter for The Washington Post, and from 1989 to 1992 she was a legal affairs writer for Congressional Quarterly.
Prior to that, she covered government and politics for the Milwaukee Journal and the Tulsa Tribune.
Biskupic has written a number of books on the Supreme Court, including biographies of Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O"Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Sonia Sotomayor. She was awarded three residential fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in 2003, 2004 and 2008, for work on these biographies.
Biskupic is also a commentator who appears regularly on television and radio programs. She is a regular panelist on Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and has appeared on the National Public Radio Diane Rehm Show, the National Broadcasting Company "Today Show.
American Broadcasting Company’s Good Morning America, American Broadcasting Company’s Nightline, and Columbia Broadcasting System’s Face the Nation.
Biskupic received her high school diploma from Benet Academy, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Marquette University, an Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Oklahoma, and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center. Biskupic received Honorary Doctors of Laws from Georgetown University in May 2014 and Marquette University in May 2010.
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Membership
She has been a member of the District of Columbia bar since 1994.
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