Juliet Eilperin (born 1971) is an American author and political correspondent based in Washington, D.C. She is The Washington Post’s senior national affairs correspondent, covering how the Trump administration is transforming a range of United States. policies and the federal government itself. ^[1]

Juliet Eilperin was born in Washington D.C. Her mother, Sophie Cook, was a lawyer and her father, Stephen Eilperin, is a senior judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Juliet Eilperin graduated from Princeton University in 1992 with a degree in politics. She graduated magna cum laude.

Juliet Eilperin joined the Post's White House team in 2013 after nine years as the national environmental reporter, reporting on climate change, oceans and air quality.

Juliet Eilperin also served as the House of Representatives reporter, where she covered the impeachment of Bill Clinton, lobbying, legislation, and five national congressional campaigns.

She is the 2011 recipient of the Peter Benchley Ocean Award for Media, and in the spring of 2005 she served as the youngest-ever McGraw Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.

She has published two books: "Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the House of Representatives" in 2006 and "Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks" in 2011.

On June 21, 2008, Juliet Eilperin married Andrew Ronald Light Jr.