Dana Littlefield is a staff writer at the San Diego Union-Tribune, where she has covered the civil and criminal courts since 2003. Prior to that, she covered several small cities in North San Diego County, including Encinitas, Solana Beach and Del Mar.
Ms. Littlefield is a native San Diegan and lifelong writer who earned a bachelor’s degree in American Literature from UCLA and a master’s in mass communication from the University of Florida. She interned at the Los Angeles Business Journal and Gainesville (Florida) Sun before being hired at the Union-Tribune, and spent three years as an adjunct instructor of journalism at Southwestern Community College in Chula Vista.
As a professional writer, Ms. Littlefield has been honored to see history unfold up close, whether it was during the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama, or while covering many high-profile trial in San Diego Superior Court.
She is an active member of the National Association of Black Journalists, and served as co-director of that organization’s first high school journalism workshop held in conjunction with the annual convention. She was elected president of the San Diego Association of Black Journalists in 2011.
