[2] During the 2009–2010 academic year, she commuted from her home in Texas to teach in the Liberty University School of Law, established by the late Jerry Falwell.

[6] While residing in Richmond and Sugar Land, in Fort Bend County—suburbs of Houston, Texas— Dunbar, a Republican, lawyer and author, served on the 15-member elected Texas State Board of Education.

[7] Dunbar claimed that voters responded to her call for teaching intelligent design in science classes, rather than only the theory of evolution.

Dunbar was publicly criticized in 2008 for a column she wrote for Christian Worldview Network, in which she claimed that then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was plotting with terrorists to attack the U.S. within his first 6 months in office.

[11] In November 2017, Dunbar announced she would run for Congress in Virginia's 6th congressional district in 2018 for the seat being vacated by the retiring incumbent Bob Goodlatte.