Rachel Scott, the award-winning senior political correspondent for ABC News, will deliver the annual Tresolini Lecture, Tuesday, Feb.17 at 7:00 p.m. in Neville Hall, Room 001. It will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Scott. The lecture is free and open to the public.

As senior political correspondent, Scott reports from Capitol Hill across all programs and platforms, including "Good Morning America, "World News Tonight with David Muir," "Nightline," "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," "20/20," ABC News Live, ABC News Digital and ABC Audio. 

Scott also serves as the network's lead campaign correspondent. She covered every moment of an unprecedented 2024 campaign cycle: she reported live on the ground from Butler, Pennsylvania moments after the attempted assassination on Trump, she anchored the network's live coverage of President Biden dropping out the race and was inside the federal court room for Trump’s felony trial. 

 Scott has conducted several exclusive interviews with leaders from both parties, including Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and Mike Pence. She was also part of the international press pool traveling with President Biden for his first official meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin where she pressed Putin on human rights abuses. 

"We are thrilled to welcome Rachel Scott to Lehigh for the Tresolini Lecture.,” said Brian Fife, professor and chair of the department of political science.  “She's been in the middle of some of the biggest moments in recent history, and her reporting shows students what fearless, principled journalism looks like in action. The Tresolini Lecture has always been about bringing these kinds of important voices to campus, and Rachel Scott is a perfect fit. Our students will get to hear directly from someone who's been in the room where it happens and holding power accountable. That's a tremendous learning opportunity, and it's what makes Lehigh special."

Her reporting on the impacts of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision received an Emmy® Award and was recognized by the Peabody Awards as a winner in 2021 and as a finalist in 2023 for her work with anchor Diane Sawyer.

Scott began covering Capitol Hill as the incoming congressional correspondent on Jan. 6, 2021, providing live reports during the insurrection. 

Before covering Capitol Hill, Scott was a White House correspondent and a Washington, D.C., correspondent. In 2020, she provided extensive, on-the-ground coverage of the nationwide protests over police brutality and the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on communities of color. 

Her career began at ABC News as a production associate for ABC News Live in 2016.

Scott is the latest in a long line of luminaries to deliver the Tresolini Lecture, including legal scholar Stephen Vladeck, journalist Carl Bernstein, public intellectual Cornel West, former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, journalist and political commentator Bill Moyers, and the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

The Rocco J. Tresolini Lectureship in Law was established in 1978, in memory of one of Lehigh’s most distinguished teachers and scholars, Rocco Tresolini (1920-1967), who served as professor and chair of the Department of Government.