Joan Biskupic

Joan Marie Biskupic (born c. 1956)[1] is an American journalist, biographer, and lawyer who has covered the United States Supreme Court since 1989.

One of her brothers, Steven M. Biskupic (born 1961), is a former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, now in private practice.

During the 2016–17 academic year, she was a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine's School of Law.

[11] Biskupic has written books on the Supreme Court, including biographies of Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Sonia Sotomayor, and Chief Justice John Roberts.

She was awarded three residential fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in 2003, 2004 and 2008, for work on these biographies.