Court TV's chief anchor Fred Graham to speak to Cornell Law School alumni June 6

Court TV's chief anchor and former CBS News legal correspondent Fred Graham will be the guest speaker at the Cornell Law School's alumni reunion dinner Saturday, June 6.

Aside from his chief anchor responsibilities, Graham serves as managing editor of the Courtroom Television Network, which covers courtroom proceedings and other legal matters. He has been at Court TV since it was created in 1990.

Graham, 66, was CBS News legal correspondent from 1972 to 1987, during which time he covered the Supreme Court, the Justice Department and FBI. He went to CBS News from The New York Times, where he had been the Supreme Court correspondent since 1965.

He has received numerous honors for his reporting, including a Peabody Award and two American Bar Association Silver Gavel awards.

Graham earned his LL.B. in 1959 from Vanderbilt Law School, where he was managing editor of the Law Review. After graduating, he practiced law in Nashville, Tenn., and moved to Washington, D.C., in January 1963 to become chief counsel of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. He earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1953.

He is the author of four books, including his most recent work, Happy Talk (W.W. Norton & Co., 1990), about developments in television news.

Graham, a native of Little Rock, Ark., is a founding member of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

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