Carol Platt Liebau is an attorney, political analyst and social conservative commentator based near Los Angeles. Her book Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!) (ISBN 978-1599956831) was published by Hachette Book Group in 2007. A columnist and blogger for Townhall.com, she has also contributed to the editorial pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, The Orange County Register, The Sacramento Bee and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, among others. She has also written for conservative websites such as National Review Online, The American Spectator, Human Events and FrontPage Magazine.
Carol has provided analysis and commentary on national television for PBS, CNN, the Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. She also serves as a substitute talk-show host for KABC radio in Southern California and for the nationally syndicated "Hugh Hewitt Show".
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Carol attended Princeton University, graduating in 1989 with a degree from The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She then attended Harvard Law School, where she was one year behind Barack Obama[1] and became the first female managing editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Carol then moved to Washington, D.C. to become a law clerk for Reagan appointee Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. After her clerkship, Carol for Senator Kit Bond and on John Ashcroft's successful 1994 campaign for the U.S. Senate. From 1994 to 1998, she practiced law in St. Louis at Armstrong Teasdale, working in the appellate and litigation departments.
In 1998 she married F. Jack Liebau and moved to California. Since then, she has served as a policy advisor and counsel for Tom Campbell's U.S. Senate campaign in 2000, given speeches throughout California (including keynote addresses for the Golden State Republican Women Leaders' Forum, the California Federation of Republican Women's biennial conference, the San Diego County Federation of Republican Women's 76th Annual Convention, and the San Bernardino County Federation of Republican Women's Conference in 2003) assisted on a variety of free-lance projects, including providing advice on the script for Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, and volunteered for organizations as diverse as the Junior League of Pasadena and Soldiers’ Angels.
Carol lives in [[the New York metropolitan area], with her husband, Jack.