Le Anne Schreiber

Le Anne Schreiber is the current ESPN ombudsman.

Schreiber replaced George Solomon in this position, who had served for twenty-one months as ombudsman. Schreiber has a two-year contract as ombudsman and is expected to write at least one column a month.

Prior to her work as the ESPN ombudsman, Schreiber had been a sports editor for "The New York Times". She has also covered the 1976 Montreal Olympics and been editor-in-chief of "womenSports" magazine. She is also a decorated journalist, having won a National Magazine Award in 1991.

Schreiber, the author of "Midstream: An Intimate Journal of Loss and Discovery", is divorced and lives in rural upstate New York. She has a master's degree from Harvard and has been a professor at University at Albany, SUNY and Columbia. Her book "Light Years" was a "New York Times" 1996 Notable Book of the Year.

Originally from Evanston, Illinois, she moved to Texas and received her bachelor's degree from Rice in 1967.