Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis reemerged within the highlight final yr after her workplace charged 19 co-defendants, together with Donald Trump, concerning efforts by the previous president and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election outcomes.
She campaigned on the premise of restoring integrity to the Fulton County district legal professional’s workplace, was elected after ousting six-term incumbent Paul Howard and inherited a stack of backlogged instances.
Within a month, her workplace was firing off letters to Georgia officers asking them to protect paperwork associated to makes an attempt to affect the state’s 2020 election.
Besides main the election subversion probe, Willis has additionally introduced anti-corruption indictments towards Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug and his associates. The district legal professional has spoken fondly of RICO – the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act – and has used it in unorthodox methods to carry expenses towards college officers and musicians, together with Young Thug.
From California by the use of Washington, DC, Willis obtained her undergraduate diploma from Howard University in 1992 and graduated from Emory School of Law in 1996, in line with her biography. Her identify, Fani, is Swahili and means “prosperous,” and her father was a lawyer and Black Panther.
According to a South Atlanta Magazine profile, she labored within the non-public sector for 5 years earlier than changing into assistant district legal professional for Fulton County in 2001.
Read extra about Fulton County’s first feminine district legal professional.
