Fani Willis Biography
Fani Willis is an American Attorney who has served as the District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, which contains most of Atlanta since 2021. Willis looked into the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. As a result, Donald Trump and 18 other people he thought were involved were charged with treason and other crimes.
Fani Willis Career
Willis went to Regina High School in Maryland, which was a Catholic school for girls only and closed in 1989. Willis then went to Howard University and graduated with honors in political science in 1993. She then moved to Atlanta to go to Emory University School of Law and earned a Juris Doctor in 1996. Her first job with the government was as a solicitor, bringing misdemeanors and city code violations to court.
The Fulton County district attorney’s office hired her as a lawyer 16 years ago and she worked there. The most well-known case she worked on was the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scam. Willis, who was an assistant district attorney at the time, was in charge of the prosecution in the 2014–2015 trial of twelve teachers who were accused of changing students’ answers on state-administered tests to make them get better results. In April 2015, eleven of the twelve were found guilty of racketeering under Georgia’s RICO law.
She became a private lawyer in 2018. She ran for a place on the Fulton County Superior Court that year but lost. The year 2019 saw Willis become the Chief Municipal Judge for South Fulton, Georgia. Willis defeated Paul Howard Jr., who had been the district attorney for Fulton County for six terms and was her former boss, in the 2020 election. In this job, she is known for successfully using Georgia’s RICO law to bring non-mobsters to justice. As of 2023, she is also using the same law to bring former President Donald Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators to justice.
Willis began a criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s phone calls to Georgia election officials, including the governor, the attorney general, and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, to try to “find” enough votes to overturn Joe Biden’s win in that state and undo Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. The calls happened on February 10, 2021. In January 2022, she asked for a special grand jury to look into charges that Trump and his supporters tampered with the election. In May, a 26-person special grand jury was given the power to investigate and call witnesses. They were also told to tell the judge and Willis if they found evidence of a crime.
Willis sent letters of menace to people who were being looked into in connection with the fake election plan. Two Republicans on this list are State Senator Brandon Beach and David Shafer, who is the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. The 16 people who wrongly claimed to be electors are also on this list. In addition, she sent a letter of intent to target State Senator Burt Jones. However, a judge told her she could not target Jones because she had a conflict of interest. After all, Willis was holding a fundraiser for the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor.
The special grand jury finished its job on January 9, 2023, after hearing from 75 witnesses, such as former US Senator Kelly Loeffler, former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, and maybe even Sidney Powell. On February 16, parts of the study were made public because a judge said so. On August 14, 2023, Willis’s office charged Trump and 18 others with 41 crimes.
Young Thug was charged with 56 counts of gang-related crimes under Georgia’s RICO law in May 2022. He was also charged with felony possession of illegal firearms and drugs that were reportedly found after a search warrant was carried out. Since he was caught, the rapper has been in Cobb County jail. The court case began on November 27, 2023.
Fani Willis Age
Willis was born on October 27, 1971, in Inglewood, California, United States. She is 52 years old as of 2023, and she celebrates her birthday on the 27th of October every year.
Fani Willis Height and Weight
Willis stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall (1.70m) and weighs 63 kgs (138 lbs).
Fani Willis Family
Willis was born in Inglewood, California to John C. Floyd III (father), and mother whose name is not known to the public. Her father Floyd, helped start a group of Black Panthers, but he lost hope in the movement because of its internal fighting. Willis’s family moved to Washington, D.C., when she was in the first grade so that her father could work as a criminal defense lawyer. Her parents split up, and her mother moved back to California. Willis spent most of her time with her father. Fani has an elder sister named Tanya Floyd and an elder brother named John Floyd Jr.
Fani Willis Husband
Willis was married to Fred Willis in 1996 and later divorced in 2005. The two first met at Howard University but Fred was working as a cameraman. They began dating and within a few months, they got married. The couple was blessed with two daughters; Nia Kisura and Kinaya Imani Willis. Nia is studying journalism at a prestigious university. The reason for their divorce has never been clear.
Fani Willis Net Worth
Willis has an estimated net worth of about $5 Million – $10 Million which she has earned through her career as an Attorney.
Fani Willis Salary
Willis earns an annual salary of about $50,000-$150,000.
Fani Willis Affair
A court document from February 2024 in the case showed that Willis had a personal relationship with Nathan Wade, the lawyer that Willis hired in November 2021 to lead the prosecution. Wade’s statement confirmed this. A defendant in the racketeering case said that Willis had a conflict of interest and an inappropriate romantic connection, which led to the filing. However, Willis has denied the claims. The document says that Willis and Wade started dating in 2022 after Wade was hired. However, Robin Yeartie, a former coworker and friend of Willis, said in court that she thought the two had been dating since at least 2019 and before Wade joined the defense team.
Fani Willis Jim Jordan Letter
Willis refused to give House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, more information about her investigation into former President Donald Trump and 18 others who are charged with trying to change the results of the 2020 presidential election. Jordan asked Willis for something, and he sent him a very enraged letter. CNN got the letter and posted it online. In response to Jordan’s earlier request for more information, the district attorney for the Atlanta area said that the lawmaker was trying to get in the way of a state criminal case and spreading “outrageous partisan misrepresentations.”
What Jordan wrote in response to Willis’ letter was that her “hostile response” made the Judiciary Committee even more worried that her “prosecutorial conduct is geared more toward advancing a political cause and your notoriety than toward promoting the fair and just administration of the law.” He said that Congress could watch over her investigation because “strong legislative interest exists in ensuring that popularly elected local prosecutors do not abuse their law-enforcement authority to target federal officials for political reasons.” Jordan said that his committee is looking into whether Congress can pass a law that would protect current and past presidents from state and local prosecutions that are based on politics.
Trump is being charged with 13 crimes in Fulton County. These include racketeering, asking a public officer to break their oath, and planning to commit several crimes together. He has pleaded not guilty, even though he is lying when he says that widespread theft cost him the 2020 election. Lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro are the first two co-defendants in the case. Their trial is set to start on Oct. 23. Scott Hall, a bail bondsman who was also charged, pleaded guilty to five misdemeanors last month. Moreover, as part of the deal he made with prosecutors, he will be on probation for five years. Additionally, he will have to appear in related trials and hearings.
Fani Willis Social Media Platforms
Willis is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages and she has 113k followers on Twitter, 7.5k followers on Instagram, and 16.2k followers on Facebook.