Mailing address:

Steve Kiehl
1214 West 40th Street
Baltimore, MD 21211

Office phone:

410-608-0880

About Me

Steve Kiehl is a first-year student at the University of Maryland School of Law and a J.D. candidate in 2012. He is a member of the Maryland Law Katrina Project and will travel to New Orleans in January 2010 to volunteer with organizations that represent low-income defendants.

Before starting law school, Kiehl was a reporter at The Baltimore Sun for eight years. He covered higher education, urban affairs, transportation, popular culture, and K-12 schools. In 2003, he spent three months in Virginia covering the trials of the D.C.-area snipers. He was a lead reporter on the Sun team that was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News for coverage of the sniper shootings.

In 2007, he was a fellow with the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. In addition to study at Johns Hopkins, he traveled to Mexico to cover issues related to immigration, the environment, and the economy. His stories from the fellowship were published in The Baltimore Sun and the Los Angeles Times.

Kiehl’s work as a national reporter for the Sun included coverage of Hurricane Katrina; the Michael Jackson trial; the Sago, W.Va., mine disaster; the Montreal Expos' move to Washington; migrant deaths along the Arizona-Mexico border; and wildfires in Colorado, where he got smoke poisoning.

Prior to joining the Sun, Kiehl was a reporter at The Palm Beach Post, where he covered higher education and local government. He also covered the disputed 2000 presidential election, reporting on the disenfranchisement of African-American voters.

Kiehl has won national, regional and state awards for his work. A native of Maryland, he received his undergraduate degree in journalism from Northwestern University.