| Personal Details Summary | |
|---|---|
| Name | Savanna Goude |
| Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB | As of 2024, she is around 36 years old. |
| Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Dating / Partner / Boyfriend | Check the full bio for relationship details. |
| Children / No. of Kids | No confirmed information is available. |
| Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race | White |
| Nationality | American |
Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background
Introduction :
- Savanna Goude is a prosecutor at the SC Attorney General’s Office.
- She went viral for her reaction during a defense attorney’s closing message.
Personal Life : Parents, Family and Education
- Savanna Goude was born to parents Eddie Joe Goude (father) and Vanessa Goude (mother). She was born and brought up in Georgetown County.
- There’s not much public about her personal or early life while growing up.
- She enrolled and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science in 2009.
- She attended Charleston School of Law and graduated with a law degree in 2015.
Career, Salary and Net Worth :
- After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree, Goude worked as a paralegal at the The Korn Law Firm in Columbia.
- While she was in law school, she was working as a Law Clerk at the Ninth Circuit Solicitor’s Office in Charleston. Her responsibilities included drafting motions, performing legal research, and preparing case summaries.
- In 2015, she worked for 2 months at Motley Rice as a contract attorney where she worked to cure deficiencies in asbestos claims by reviewing client medicals and exposure.
- In 2016, after graduating from Law School, she started working as the Assistant Solicitor at the Fourteenth Circuit Solicitor’s Office in Beaufort, SC.
- From 2018, she’s working as the Assistant Attorney General in Columbia.
- Savanna handles issues including separation, child custody, and marriage support as part of her core speciality in the area of family law.
Alex Murdaugh Trials :
- Savanna was one the prosecutors in charge of the Murdaugh trials. Murdaugh was standing trial in the shootings of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, on June 7, 2021, at their Colleton County home.
- She was specifically in charge of the cross examination of witnesses.
- She cross-examined defense witness and forensic scientist Timothy Palmbach, as well as Dr. Jonathan Eisenstat, a forensic pathologist.
- Savanna questioned how it would be possible for the shooter to not leave their own bloody footprints inside the feed room.
- During the trial, her facial expression went viral as she sat behind the defense attorney Jim Griffin when he delivered the closing arguments in the case.
- The clip went viral with people comparing her to ‘Wednesday Addams’ and how their expressions matched.
- The forensic scientist, Palmbach testified that the killer was likely inside the feed room for both shots that killed Paul Murdaugh, firing downward through the top of Murdaugh’s skull and subsequently being covered in blood.
- Goude questioned how it would be possible for the shooter to not leave their own bloody footprints inside the feed room. SLED investigators had only identified Paul Murdaugh’s footprints in the room.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Savanna is a non-smoker and when her university introduced a program to help student smokers, she was against the idea. She said that it wasn’t the university’s responsibility but it was still a nice thing to have.