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name: "Jill Goldsmith"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jill-goldsmith"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 79
updated: "2026-09-17T00:07:41.612143+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jill Goldsmith

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 1990–2004
- **Works often with:** Bill D'Elia, Charles Haid, Craig Bench, Craig Turk, Daniel Sackheim, David Shore

## Biography

Jill Goldsmith is an American television writer and producer. Her credits include episodes of *NYPD Blue* (1998), *The Practice*, *Ally McBeal*, *Law & Order* and *Boston Legal*.

Before entering television, she earned a J.D. from Washington University School of Law, served an internship with U.S. Senator Paul Simon on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and spent seven years as a public defender in the Juvenile and Felony Trial divisions of the Cook County Public Defender's Office in Chicago. She later obtained an MFA in screenwriting from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Goldsmith was a 2008 finalist for the Humanitas Prize. She has spoken at law schools, conferences and writing programmes, appeared as a panelist on C-SPAN, CBS News and CNN, and contributed a chapter to the 2009 book *Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, tft.ucla.edu, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Boston Legal* (2004), Fi1m 76, Story, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/boston-legal.md)
- *NYPD Blue* (1993), Fi1m 82, Story, Teleplay — [page](https://film.one/tv/nypd-blue.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Law & Order* (1990), Teleplay, Writer

## Also known for

- *Rizzoli & Isles* (2010), Writer, Story
- *Ally McBeal* (1997), Writer
- *Chesapeake Shores* (2016), Writer
- *The Practice* (1997), Writer, Story Editor, Executive Story Editor

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