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A native of Hamden, Connecticut, and a graduate of Hamden High School, Ms. Greenhouse majored in American government at Radcliffe College of Harvard University, where she was an editor of The Harvard Crimson. She graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Immediately after her graduation in 1968, she joined The New York Times staff as a news clerk to the legendary columnist James Reston. In her early reporting career at The Times, she covered state and local government and served as chief of the newspaper’s legislative bureau in Albany.

In 1977-78, The Times sponsored her on a Ford Foundation fellowship at Yale Law School, where she earned a Master of Studies in Law degree. She then joined the newspaper’s Washington bureau as a correspondent covering the Supreme Court. With the exception of two years covering Congress during the mid-1980s, she has covered the Court throughout the past three decades.