NPR's Totenberg to discuss impact of U.S. Supreme Court at event March 3
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The Nashville community will have a unique opportunity to hear one of National Public Radio’s most well known voices “face-to-face” as Nina Totenberg is coming to town for a special engagement hosted by Lipscomb University’s College of Leadership & Public Service and the Don R. Elliott Distinguished Presidential Lecture Series.
Totenberg, NPR’s award-winning legal affairs correspondent, will offer an insightful look into the dynamics of a new administration and the appointment of a new justice to the nation’s highest court in a discussion of “The Supreme Court and Its Impact on You” Friday, March 3. The event will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in downtown Nashville.
Tickets are $125 per person or $1,250 for a table of 10. Seating is limited. Click here to register. Guests are invited to view the Frist exhibits prior to the start of the event.
Totenberg’s reports air regularly on NPR’s critically acclaimed newsmagazines, “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition” and “Weekend Edition.” Totenberg’s coverage of legal affairs and the Supreme Court has won her widespread recognition.
Newsweek says, “The mainstays [of NPR] are ‘Morning Edition’ and ‘All Things Considered.’ But the crème de la crème is Nina Totenberg.” In 1991, she reported on University of Oklahoma Law Professor Anita Hill’s allegations of sexual harassment by Judge Clarence Thomas, leading to numerous awards. In 1988, Totenberg won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for her coverage of Supreme Court nominations. The jurors of the award stated, “Ms. Totenberg broke the story of Judge (Douglas) Ginsburg’s use of marijuana, raising issues of changing social values and credibility with careful perspective under deadline pressure.”
Totenberg has been honored eight times by the American Bar Association for continued excellence in legal reporting, and has received a number of honorary degrees. Esquire magazine has twice named her one of the “Women We Love.” She has won every major journalism award in broadcasting, and is the only radio journalist to have won the National Press Foundation award for Broadcaster of the Year. On the non-broadcasting side of her career, she has written for newspapers and periodicals, from the New York Times Magazine to the Harvard Law Review.