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Name | Marcia Coyle |
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | June 24, 1952. As of 2025, she is around 73 years old. |
Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Spouse / Partner | Married. Check the full bio for relationship details. |
Children / No. of Kids | 2 |
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
Nationality | American |
Is Marcia Coyle a lawyer? | Currently, Marcia Coyle serves as the Chief Washington Correspondent for The National Law Journal. Coyle has covered the Supreme Court for twenty years as a lawyer and journalist. |
Wikipedia Bio / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Marcia Coyle is the Chief Washington Correspondent for The National Law Journal, a national weekly newspaper that covers law and litigation.
- A respected lawyer and journalist, Coyle has also won numerous awards for her legal and investigative reporting.
Personal Life : Family and Childhood
- Marcia Coyle was born on June 24, 1952, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to parents – Robert Coyle (father) and Connie Coyle (mother).
- She has a brother, Robert Coyle Jr. and a sister, Mary Alice Santora.
- In 1973, she graduated from Hood College, a liberal arts college in Frederick, Maryland, with Bachelors in English.
- She went to finish her MS in Journalism from Northwestern University and her JD degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law.
Marriage and Kids :
- Coyle met her husband, Raymond DiBiagio, while studying law at the University of Baltimore.
- Raymond works at his own practice and concentrates on bankruptcy law along with drafting wills, trusts, and other asset protection vehicles. The couple married in May of 1984 and have two kids together, Robert DiBiagio and Katerina DiBiagio.
- Marcia’s son, Robert DiBiagio, was in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves and spent a month in the Mojave Desert while her daughter attended Anne Arundel Community College.
- Her daughter Katerina delivered her first child in mid-2019, making Marcia a grandma.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- Marcia started her career by covering state and national government and politics for the Pennsylvania Times-Mirror, a daily newspaper for more than a decade.
- She has also written about the Supreme Court and other legal issues for magazines and publications like Vogue, Ms. Magazine and the New York Times Book Review.
- In 2013, she authored & released a book called “The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution”. The book reveals the fault lines in the conservative-dominated Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. through four landmark decisions.
- Besides working on her own book, Marcia is also a contributing author to a book on the Supreme Court, “A Year in the Life of the U.S. Supreme Court.”
- Currently, she is the Chief Washington Correspondent for The National Law Journal and has now covered the Supreme Court for more than 25 years. She is also a regular contributor of Supreme Court analysis to the PBS show The NewsHour.
Accolades :
Marcia’s reporting and work have earned her various awards :
- George Polk Award for legal reporting
- Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for outstanding investigative reporting.
- American Judicature Society’s Toni House Journalism Award for a career body of work involving coverage of the nation’s courts and justice system.
- The Scripps-Howard Foundation Award for environmental journalism, among others.
A Big Story :
- Marcia covered the story when Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was going through a sexual harassment claim by another lawyer, Moira Smith.
- Marcia had interviewed Moira and her other roommates at the time of the incident. She also weighed in on Jill Abramson’s piece on Justice Clarence Thomas. Jill, a former executive editor of The New York Times, had produced an article that laid alleged claims against Justice Thomas by a reporter named Nancy Montwieler.
- But when Marcia reached out to her, Nancy mentioned that Thomas has always been professional and that she never experienced any inappropriate conduct from him.
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Always happy to see and hear your analysis of the court kept clean and concise.
Mrs Coyle…I do much admire your reporting. This may seem odd but you have the same skin coloring as I do (Irish) and you are wearing all the wrong colors. Black near the face drains. Bright clear colors are what I have learned are best. Yellow rather than blue tones brighten us. Never cranberry! I learned this after years of wearing the wrong colors…now I can get dressed in the dark. Think taupe! I am Joanne Springer from Idaho. Keep up the great work!
Marcia,
I really enjoy your explanations of legal issues on PBS. You make difficult issues understandable. You are the best person doing this. Thank you very much. I feel I am overstepping proper etiquette by asking this personal question, but I am asking anyway. Sometimes you wear a BEAUTIFUL jacket, I call the color Teal. Are you allowed to tell the brand where you bought it?
I look for that color in a jacket or a coat, but cannot find it. I see colors a bit similar, but not quite the lovely teal of your jacket. I understand if you cannot give this information.
I thank you in advance if you can do so.
Sincerely,
Maeve Nolan.
Hoping Marcia is well and spending a great holiday season with her family. Her analysis of the Supreme Court and other legal matters is clear and understandable for us non-legal experts. Thank you, Marcia! Would love to meet you.
Haven’t seen you recently on the PBS NewsHour. I miss your analyses of SCOTUS decisions.
Marcia Coyle explains exceptionally complex national legal issues in words that…a high school graduate can understand. Thanks.
Me as well, on both counts!
Really love Marcia’s work Curious about the ship model behind her on TV recently. Any info available? A story?
Thanks.
I too am curious about the ship model and what if any interest Marcia has in sailing ships.