Carrie Johnson is the Justice Correspondent for the NPR's Washington Desk. She covers a wide variety of stories about justice issues, law enforcement and legal affairs for NPR's flagship programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as the Newscasts and NPR.org In this role, Johnson has chronicled major challenges to the landmark voting rights law, a botched law enforcement operation targeting gun traffickers along the Southwest border, and the Obama administration's deadly drone program for suspected terrorists overseas. Prior to coming to NPR in 2010, Johnson worked at The Washington Post for 10 years, where she closely observed the FBI, the Justice Department and criminal trials of the leaders of Enron, HealthSouth and Tyco. Earlier in her career, she wrote about courts for the weekly publication Legal Times. She has been honored with awards from the Society for Professional Journalism and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and has been a finalist for the Loeb award for financial journalism and the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news. Johnson is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Benedictine University in Illinois.