Born June 19, 1963, in Glastonbury, Connecticut, Laura Anne Ingraham grew up in a blue-collar household. Her father, James F. Ingraham III, was a World War II veteran who ran a carwash, while her mother, Anne Kozak, worked at the local school and later waited tables. The youngest of four children\u2014and the only girl\u2014Laura spent her school years focused more on sports than on politics. After graduating Glastonbury High in 1981, she headed to Dartmouth College, where she became the first female editor-in-chief of the conservative Dartmouth Review.<\/p>\n
The paper\u2019s provocative tone landed it on 60 Minutes and in a two-year libel battle with professor William Cole\u2014an early glimpse of Ingraham\u2019s appetite for controversy. Law, speechwriting, and the Reagan years. A summer stint writing speeches for Reagan administration education secretary William Bennett nudged her toward Washington. Following Dartmouth, she joined the White House speechwriting staff, then earned her J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law.<\/p>\n
Prestigious clerkships followed\u2014first under Judge Ralph Winter on the Second Circuit, then with Supreme Court Justice Clarence\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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