Kelly O’Donnell

About

Kelly O’Donnell (born May 17, 1965) is an American journalist. She is the chief justice and national affairs correspondent for NBC News covering the Justice Department. She appears on NBC Nightly News, Today, Meet The Press, and NBC News Now.

In 1987, O’Donnell graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science in Education degree, focusing on a combined course of study in journalism and public policy.
In the 1990s, O’Donnell served as a reporter and anchor at WJW-TV in Cleveland, Ohio. At this time, O’Donnell worked with former NBC reporter Martin Savidge, when WJW was still a CBS station in Cleveland.
Beginning in 1994, O’Donnell followed a broad range of stories as an NBC News correspondent based in New York City and Los Angeles.
O’Donnell also appeared as a panelist on The Chris Matthews Show. She had served as news anchor and substitute host on the Weekend Today program and the weekend edition of Nightly News. She has contributed reports to the primetime news magazine Dateline NBC. She served as White House correspondent for NBC News during the second term of George W. Bush; following the 2008 presidential campaign season, she became Capitol Hill…