Sometimes you look at certain people on the national or world stage (particularly U.S. Republicans, these days) and wonder where the hell they came from. Thanks to Public Notice, we have an answer for at least one of them: Jenna Ellis, the Trump election-fraud attorney who pled guilty this week to “one felony count of aiding and abetting false statements in Fulton County Superior Court.” She got five years probation, was fined $5k, and has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in testifying against her co-defendants. One assumes that's not-good news for Rudy Giuliani and Donald J. Trump.

So where the hell did Jenna Ellis come from?

• In 2011, she graduated from the University of Richmond School of Law
• In 2012, she became a deputy DA in Weld County, Col., working mostly traffic court
• Six months later, she was fired from same for “unsatisfactory performance”
• Won an unemployment claim even though the examiner agreed with the cause of dimissal: “... the officer found that Ellis had only 'committed an irreparable egregious act' in a small portion of her cases and was 'performing the duties to the best of her ability' given the 'deficiencies in her education and experience.'” (<-- Yes, this.)
• Six-month stint with discovery processing company
• Several years as pre-law adviser at Christian college; wrote several Christian-themed, anti-homosexual books
• “Then it was on to gigs at rightwing Christian outfits, including James Dobson's Family Institute and the Thomas More Society, which got her booked for conservative media hits.”
• In 2019, Trump liked what he saw of her on Fox News and she joined his reelection campaign
• In 2020, she attempted to undermine American democracy

Not exactly a great CV. Throughout, she's lied about her credentials while whapping people with the Bible. Public Notice suggests that while she's pled guilty, and despite the waterworks, she's hardly contrite. Will be interesting to hear her testimony next year.