Cornelia Grumman joined the Chicago Tribune's editorial board in May 2000. There, she writes primarily about social policy, education, juvenile justice and the death penalty. She also oversees the Tribune's political endorsements. Prior to becoming a member of the editorial board, Grumman spent six years as a metropolitan, state government and Internet reporter for the Tribune.

Before coming to the Tribune, Grumman worked at the News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, as a stringer at the Washington Post in Beijing in the aftermath of student democracy movement in 1989, and at the Daily Southtown.

Grumman earned a master's degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a bachelor's degree in public policy from Duke University.

In 2001 Grumman received the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for editorials on children and family issues, a Studs Terkel award for coverage of disadvantaged communities, a Herman Kogan award for editorials on the death penalty and the Peter Lisagor award for commentary.