Virginia "Ginni" Thomas is a daughter of the Heartland, an Omaha, Neb., native born into a Republican family.
Known then as Virginia Lamp, she attended school and studied law at Creighton University in her hometown.
At one point, she aspired to become a member of Congress and made the conservative movement her mission.
"A lot of people know me because of my husband who's on the Supreme Court, but the truth is I'm my mother's daughter," Thomas said in a political endorsement video for Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential run, explaining that her mother was once a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
Several years earlier, Thomas had helped lead the charge in the rising tea party movement, one in which Cruz also figured prominently.
"And I caught the bug when I was a teenager," she said in the Cruz video.
Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has a long track record in conservative activism. Over the years, that activism has veered more into the controversial.
It took an especially dramatic turn in the weeks following former President Trump's re-election loss when Thomas was in touch with Trump's then-top White House aide to actively pursue overturning the results.
"It's extraordinary. This is a pipeline between the spouse of a Supreme Court justice, the judicial branch, and the chief of staff at the White House," CBS News correspondent Robert Costa, one of the reporters who broke the joint...
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