NINA TOTENBERG

Nina Totenberg is NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent, covering the Supreme Court for more than 40 years, a tenure longer than any Supreme Court justice. Her reports air regularly on NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. Totenberg's coverage of the Supreme Court and legal affairs has won her widespread recognition. 

In 1991, her ground-breaking report about University of Oklahoma Law Professor Anita Hill's allegations of sexual harassment by Judge Clarence Thomas led the Senate Judiciary Committee to re-open Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings to consider Hill's charges.  NPR received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for its gavel-to-gavel coverage — anchored by Totenberg — of both the original hearings and the inquiry into Anita Hill's allegations.  

Totenberg was named Broadcaster of the Year in 1998 and awarded the Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcasting from the National Press Foundation. She is the first radio journalist to receive the award. Totenberg has been honored seven times by the American Bar Association for continued excellence in legal reporting and has received more than two dozen honorary degrees. 

In 2023, Nina Totenberg was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.