Amy Howe is the co-founder of SCOTUSblog, a website devoted to comprehensive and nonpartisan coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court since 2002. Since 2016, she has served as the primary reporter for the blog, covering everything from retirements and confirmation hearings to oral arguments and opinions. She tries to make the Supreme Court’s work accessible to lawyers and nonlawyers alike.

Amy was part of the SCOTUSblog team that won a Peabody Award in 2013 – the first blog to do so – as well as a National Press Club Journalism Award for Breaking News. She has appeared on the BBC, CNN, C-Span, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, and NPR. Since the spring of 2025, she has served as the Supreme Court analyst for the PBS NewsHour.

Amy now considers herself a fully retired lawyer. Before turning to full-time journalism, however, she litigated cases before the Supreme Court, on issues ranging from international child custody to the death penalty. She was also a very junior lawyer on Al Gore’s Supreme Court team during Bush v. Gore. Amy has taught or co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Vanderbilt Law School, Stanford Law School, and Harvard Law School. She also co-taught an international human rights clinic at American University’s Washington College of Law.

Amy has a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina, a master’s degree in Arab studies from Georgetown, and a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an executive editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.

Amy's discussion group this Fall is titled "The Supreme Court in the Age of Trump."