Senior Editor Fred Graham covers Congress and the Supreme Court for In Session and reports on key legal news events from the nation’s capital.

Fred Graham joined In Session (formerly known as Court TV) as an anchor in 1991 when the network first launched. Graham served as chief anchor and managing editor, hosting the morning trial coverage program Open Court. Now based in Washington, D.C., he recently assumed the role of Senior Editor, heading the network’s editorial board.

Graham has received numerous awards for his reporting, including the George Foster Peabody Award, two American Bar Association Silver Gavel Awards, and shares in three Emmy Awards. He is the author of four books: The Self-Inflicted Wound (MacMillan 1970), concerning criminal law decisions of the Warren Court; Press Freedom Under Pressure (Twentieth Century Fund 1972) about the news media and the First Amendment; The Alias Program (Little, Brown & Co. 1976) concerning the Justice Department’s witness protection program; and Happy Talk (W.W. Norton & Company 1990) about developments – not all happy – in television news.

Over the past 45 years, Graham has been a practicing attorney, government official, legal writer for The New York Times, law correspondent for CBS News; anchor, commentator and senior editor for WKRN-TV, the ABC affiliate in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee.

Graham covered numerous trials, including the Watergate cover-up and the trials of Daniel Ellsberg, John Connally, John Hinckley, and John DeLorean. His television documentaries include “See You In Court” (CBS Reports), “Justice For All” (Public Broadcasting System) and “Ethics on Trial” (Public Broadcasting System).

Graham was a founding member of the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press and is a member of its steering committee. His articles have been published in many newspapers, magazines and law reviews, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Harper’s, Esquire, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, TV Guide, and The American Bar Association Journal.

Graham received his LLB from Vanderbilt Law School and attended Oxford University on a Fulbright Scholarship. Graham did his undergraduate work at Yale University on an academic scholarship and received a B.A. in 1953. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1953 to 1956, seeing duty in Korea and Japan as an Infantry and Intelligence Officer.