PERSON: Savannah Guthrie


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Television anchor Savannah Clark Guthrie, named after her great-great-grandmother, was born on December 27, 1971, in Melbourne, Australia, where her father had been sent on business. When she was 2 years old, Guthrie and her family moved to Tucson, Arizona. She was one of three children, and learned to play tennis and the piano as a child. When she was 16, her father passed away, and her mother, a stay-at-home mom, returned to work. Guthrie later said that her mom was her biggest inspiration.<br> <br> After high school, Guthrie attended the University of Arizona. She was initially unsure of what to study, and her mother suggested taking classes in journalism. While in school, Guthrie landed a job at a local public television station. When she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1993, she took a job at a local TV station in Columbia, Missouri, where she worked for two years before she was offered a position with an NBC affiliate in her hometown of Tucson.<br> <br> Five years later, Guthrie headed east to another NBC affiliate, WRC-TV, in Washington, D.C., where she covered the September 11, 2001, attacks on the Pentagon and anthrax mailings. While working as a freelance reporter, she was also earning a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. She graduated, magna cum laude, in 2002, and received the highest score on the Arizona bar exam.<br> <br> From 2002 to 2003, Guthrie practiced law with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, and specialized in white-collar criminal defense. She returned to TV journalism in 2004, as a legal affairs correspondent for Court TV.<br> <br> — biography.com
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