Linda Greenhouse of Yale Law School has been unanimously elected as the thirty-seventh president of the American Philosophical Society, the nation’s first and oldest learned society. Professor Greenhouse, who will serve as the society’s first female president, currently serves as the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law.
As president, she will join the likes of Benjamin Franklin (the society’s founder and first President) and Thomas Jefferson in supporting the advancement of knowledge in America through the election of members who have made significant contributions to society, and operating the oldest scholarly imprint in North America.
“My involvement with the American Philosophical Society has been a source of learning and pleasure. My goal is to help the Society continue to fulfill its mission of intellectual inquiry and ‘promoting useful knowledge,’ and I am most honored by the confidence that my fellow members have placed in me,” Professor Greenhouse said.
Professor Greenhouse earned a Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 1998 as part of her 30-year career covering the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times.
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