Jenna Ellis biography: 13 things about University of Richmond alumna

Jenna Lynn Ellis is an American lawyer who graduated from the University of Richmond School of Law in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Her parents homeschooled her when she was young.

Here are 13 more things about her:

1. In 2001, she was a victim of a violent crime. She later received a significant financial award from a civil case related to it.
2. In 2003, she entered Cedarville University in Cedarville, Greene County, Ohio.
3. In 2004, she transferred to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, USA to pursue a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
4. In 2011, she received a Juris Doctor from the University of Richmond School of Law.
5. From 2012 to 2013, she served as deputy district attorney in Weld County, Colorado.
6. In 2015, she was a critic of Donald Trump and his supporters. From 2015 to 2018, she worked at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado as an affiliate faculty member and an assistant professor of legal studies.
7. In 2016, she started supporting Trump.
8. In November 2019, she was hired as a senior legal adviser for Trump. His U.S. presidential campaign paid her $3,900 in December 2019, $140,000 in October 2020 and $30,000 in November 2020.
9. From November 2020 to January 2021, she was a member of a team that made efforts to overturn Joe Biden‘s victory in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
10. In March 2023, Colorado Supreme Court chief disciplinary judge Bryon M. Large publicly censured her for recklessly making 10 public misrepresentation.
11. On August 14, 2023, a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, USA indicted her and 18 others for allegedly participating in a criminal enterprise in furtherance of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 U.S. presidential election results. On August 23, 2023, she turned herself in at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Fulton County.
12. In September 2023, she said on her radio show on American Family Radio that she could not support Trump “for elected office again” due to his “malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s never done anything wrong”.
13. She was 38 years old when pleaded guilty on October 24, 2023 to aiding and abetting false statements in writing.