43 Facts About Ginni Thomas

Virginia "Ginni" Thomas is an American attorney and conservative activist.

Ginni Thomas began her career working for Republican Hal Daub while he was a member of the United States House of Representatives.

In 2009, Ginni Thomas founded Liberty Central, a conservative political advocacy nonprofit organization associated with the Tea Party movement.

Ginni Thomas supported Donald Trump during his presidency, offering the administration recommendations on individuals to hire through her work with the conservative Groundswell group.

Ginni Thomas emailed state lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin, urging them to ignore the results of the 2020 presidential election and vote instead for an alternate slate of electors.

Ginni Thomas made an early social media endorsement of the Trump rally that preceded the January 2021 attack on the United States Capitol before the violence took place, and she later apologized for contributing to a rift among her husband's former Supreme Court clerks concerning that riot.

Ginni Thomas grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, the youngest of four children born to Donald Lamp, an engineer who owned his own firm, and Marjorie Lamp, a stay-at-home mother and conservative activist.

Ginni Thomas's parents were Republicans and members of the John Birch Society, an anti-communist and conservative political advocacy group.

Ginni Thomas attended Westside High School in Omaha, where she was a member of student government, the debate club, and the Republican club.

Ginni Thomas enrolled at Mount Vernon College for Women in Washington, DC because of its proximity to the Capitol; one of her classmates was Susan Ford, daughter of then-President Gerald Ford.

Ginni Thomas received a Bachelor of Arts in political science and business communication from Creighton and a Juris Doctor from the Creighton University School of Law, after a hiatus working as a legislative aide for Representative Hal Daub.

When Daub took office in 1981, Ginni Thomas moved to Washington, DC, and worked in his office for 18 months.

Ginni Thomas's advocacy included arguing against the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.

In 1991, Ginni Thomas returned to government service in the Legislative Affairs Office of the US Department of Labor, where she argued against comparable-worth legislation that would have mandated equal pay for women and men in jobs deemed to be comparable.

Ginni Thomas continued to work at the Heritage Foundation during the administration of George W Bush, serving as the White House Liaison for the think tank.

In late 2009, Ginni Thomas established the nonprofit lobbying group Liberty Central to organize conservative activists, issue legislative scorecards for US Congress members, and be involved in elections.

The group was aimed at opposing what Ginni Thomas called the "leftist tyranny'" of President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, and "protecting the core founding principles" of the nation.

Ginni Thomas's lobbying activities were raised as a potential source of conflict of interest for her husband.

Ginni Thomas was interviewed by Sean Hannity on his Fox News show Hannity in June 2010.

In February 2011, Politico reported that Ginni Thomas was the head of a new company, Liberty Consulting, which filed incorporation papers in mid-November 2010.

The Washington Post described Liberty Consulting as "a one-woman shop" where Thomas advised political donors how to direct funds in the post-Citizens United v FEC landscape.

Also in 2011, Ginni Thomas became a special correspondent for Tucker Carlson's The Daily Caller.

The Post could not determine the precise nature of any work Ginni Thomas did for either firm, though it noted Judicial Education Project filed a brief to the Supreme Court in a 2012 landmark voting rights case.

Ginni Thomas endorsed Ted Cruz in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries.

Ginni Thomas supported Donald Trump after he won the Republican nomination, and has served on the advisory council of Turning Point USA.

Ginni Thomas has drawn attention for making controversial social media posts; The Washington Post wrote that she had shared "nakedly partisan, erroneous propaganda".

Ginni Thomas is a member of the informal conservative Groundswell group, which she founded with the support of Steve Bannon, a former Trump advisor.

Swan reported that Ginni Thomas had given Trump a memo with names of individuals recommended by the Groundswell network.

Ginni Thomas is a member of the conservative Council for National Policy, and in 2019, she became part of its board.

Ginni Thomas wrote the emails on a platform that allowed pre-written form emails to be sent to multiple elected officials, and she sent them to 29 lawmakers.

In September 2022, The Washington Post reported that Ginni Thomas emailed Wisconsin state senator Kathy Bernier and Wisconsin state representative Gary Tauchen with verbatim copies of the Arizona emails urging them to set aside the results of the popular vote and choose their own electors.

Ginni Thomas urged that conspiracy theorist attorney Sidney Powell be retained by the Trump campaign efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Ginni Thomas replied that the answer is for others to determine, mentioning the congressional investigating committee and the Department of Justice.

Ginni Thomas is the widow of former Texas solicitor general Greg Coleman, who had clerked for Clarence Thomas.

The Ginni Thomas email was among those federal judge David Carter ordered Eastman to release to the January 6 committee in June 2022, as Eastman sought to withhold them.

Ginni Thomas attended a meeting of FrontLiners for Liberty on March 6,2021, at which a speaker declared Trump was still the "legitimate president," to enthusiastic applause.

Ginni Thomas emailed state lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin, urging them to ignore the results of the 2020 presidential election and vote instead for an alternate slate of electors.

Ginni Thomas further claimed that she did not communicate her election-related activities to her husband, Clarence.

Ginni Thomas noted that with regards to her texts to Meadows, she "would take them all back if I could today;" she attributed her communications with Meadows as being the result of her being "emotional" after Trump's election defeat.

Ginni Thomas converted from Protestantism to her husband's Catholic faith in 2002.

Ginni Thomas was inspired by his devotion of praying the Litany of Humility and participating in the Mass.

In 2011, Clarence Ginni Thomas amended 20 years worth of his financial disclosures to include Virginia Ginni Thomas's places of employment.

Ginni Thomas became a critic of controversial religious groups, speaking on panels and organizing anti-cult workshops for congressional staffers in 1986 and 1988.