Guthrie is also an NBC News anchor and substitute anchor on NBC Nightly News. In this capacity, she contributed to all NBC News properties. On December 18, she was named a White House correspondent for NBC News. She covered Sarah Palin's 2008 vice-presidential race from Fairbanks, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, Sioux City, Iowa, and Washington. Guthrie became a correspondent for NBC News in September 2007.
Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, the abduction and murder trial of Carlie Brucia, the Martha Stewart case, and the Michael Jackson trial. She covered high-profile legal proceedings including the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings of U.S. In 2004, she became a national trial correspondent for CourtTV. She worked for the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where she served as a litigation associate, specializing in white-collar criminal defense.
She also was a member of Order of the Coif and received the International Academy of Trial Lawyers' Student Advocacy award for her work with victims of domestic violence.
She is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Arizona, having scored first place on the Arizona Bar Exam. Īfter working several years as a broadcast journalist, Guthrie chose to resume her higher education, receiving a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated magna cum laude in 2002. where she covered major stories including the September 11, 2001, attack on The Pentagon and the 2001 anthrax attacks. After five years in Arizona, she took a job at WRC-TV, Washington, D.C. Her first job in broadcasting was at ABC affiliate KMIZ, in Columbia, Missouri, where she worked for two years before returning to Tucson and a job with NBC affiliate KVOA in 1995. Guthrie received a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated magna cum laude in 2002. She was a member of the Arizona Alpha chapter of Pi Beta Phi. in journalism from the University of Arizona, graduating cum laude in 1993. She graduated from Amphitheater High School in Tucson. Guthrie also spent some time in Sydney before returning to the United States. They then visited the family’s former home in nearby Beaumaris. She made the trip with her mother, Nancy, visiting her birth place at the Maternity Ward of Sandringham Hospital in Sandringham, Victoria, an affluent beachside town located 16 km (10 mi) south east of Melbourne's central business district. The first time Guthrie returned to Australia was in 2015 while working for Today, which she described as a "lifelong dream" of hers. Savannah Clark Guthrie, named for her great-grandmother, was born in Melbourne, Australia, where her father was stationed for work. Her family returned to the United States and moved to Tucson, Arizona, two years later.