Edie Lambert

Lambert joined KCRA in July 1995 as a reporter and morning anchor. Later she became the weekend anchor with Ron Jones (now at KOVR), until 2002. Then she anchored with Kevin Riggs on the weekend evening editions of the newscast. In early 2006, she switched positions to anchor the 6:00pm and 11:00pm newscast with John Alston. She is now teamed up with Gulstan Dart.

Lambert graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. She credits her father with giving her the advice to follow her passions, which would later lead to finding her path.{{cite web |url=http://www.girlsonthegrid.com/sacramento-women-making-history-2014/edielambert-2/ |title=Sacramento Women making history: Edie Lambert |author= |date=2014 |website=Girls on the Grid |accessdate=24 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327180752/http://www.girlsonthegrid.com/sacramento-women-making-history-2014/edielambert-2/ |archive-date=27 March 2017 |url-status=dead }} She is involved with many non-profit organizations, including a domestic violence shelter and a breast cancer research and education organization. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Press Club. Prior to joining KCRA she worked at KEYT-TV as an evening anchor and reporter. Lambert says her motivation to fight cancer comes from her aunt, who was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in the late 1970s, and her father, who was treated for a sarcoma in his leg using chemotherapy that had initially been developed to fight breast cancer.{{cite magazine |url=http://go.epublish4me.com/ebook/ebook?id=10053645 |title=Edie Lambert: Reporter and Educator |author=Flansberg, Rebecca |date=2013 |magazine=HerLife |accessdate=24 February 2017 |pages=22–25}} Lambert's sister and brother-in-law both work at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.{{cite news |url=http://www.kcra.com/article/edie-lambert-25-things-you-don-t-know-about-me/6347004 |title=Edie Lambert: 25 things you don't know about me |author=Lambert, Edie |date=14 July 2014 |publisher=KCRA-TV |accessdate=24 February 2017}}

Lambert has won a number of awards, including an Emmy for a documentary on breast cancer.{{cite web |url=http://www.kcra.com/news-team/b03bf5f3-3097-4d57-9469-1333f2abd98a |title=Edie Lambert: Anchor/Reporter |author= |date=2017 |publisher=Hearst Television/KCRA-TV |accessdate=24 February 2017}} She has consistently been selected as Sacramento Magazine's reader's choice for best local reporter and then best anchor.

Both of Lambert's parents are marine biologists; her mother has discovered and named six new species of tunicates and has authored or co-authored 66 papers; her father, Charles, was a noted embryologist and professor emeritus at California State University, Fullerton.{{cite web |url=https://depts.washington.edu/fhl/pdf/Fellowships/CharlesLambertMemorialEndowment.pdf |title=The Charles Lambert Memorial Endowment at the UW Friday Harbor Laboratories |author= |date=2012 |publisher=University of Washington |accessdate=24 February 2017}} Although she was well-traveled when younger, following her parents on numerous scientific expeditions, Lambert credits Friday Harbor, Washington as her hometown.{{cite news |url=http://sacnewsblogger.blogspot.com/2007/10/october-2007-interview-with-kcras-edie.html |title=October 2007 Interview with Edie Lambert |author=Sac News Blogger |date=1 October 2007 |website=Sac News Blogger |accessdate=24 February 2017}}

Lambert currently resides in Sacramento with her husband, Lloyd E. Levine{{cite news |url=http://www.sacbee.com/food-drink/appetizers/article10525238.html |title=At table with Sacramento news anchor Edie Lambert |author=Pierleoni, Allen |date=17 February 2015 |newspaper=The Sacramento Bee |accessdate=24 February 2017}} whom she married on September 21, 2008,{{cite magazine |url=http://www.sacmag.com/Sacramento-Magazine/January-2011/Wedding-Album/ |title=Wedding Album |author=Macaluso, Elena M. |date=3 January 2011 |magazine=Sacramento Magazine |accessdate=24 February 2017}} and they have two children. Lambert and Levine, then the Assemblymember from California's 40th Assembly District, met on a flight from Seattle to Sacramento in November 2005.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-dec-20-la-tr-loveatfirstflight20-2009dec20-story.html |title=When love takes flight, the sky's the limit |author=Mandell, Judy |date=20 December 2009 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=24 February 2017}} Her first daughter was born in 2010. Lambert's second daughter was born two weeks before the birth of the daughter of Kellie DeMarco, her co-anchor, in 2014.{{cite web |url=http://emmysf.tv/files/2015/01/Baby-News-in-Sacramento.pdf |title="We've Come a Long Way, Babies!": Baby News in Sacramento! As Their Families Grow, KCRA Co-Anchors Mix Careers, Friendship with Motherhood |author=Mitchell, Joyce |date=January 2015 |publisher=The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, San Francisco/Northern California Chapter |accessdate=24 February 2017}}

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