Jenna Lynn Ellis (born November 1, 1984)[1] is an American conservative lawyer who was a member of Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign's legal team.

[2][4] From November 2020 to January 2021, she was a member of what she characterized as an "elite strike force team" that made efforts to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

[2] She made claims that Trump was the actual winner of the election and drafted two memos asserting that vice president Mike Pence could change the results.

[13] In April 2024, Ellis was indicted by an Arizona grand jury for allegedly participating in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election in the state.

[15] In August 2024 Ellis agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the Arizona elector case in a deal that allows her to avoid potential jail time.

[2] As a prosecutor, she worked on traffic offense matters and other low-level misdemeanors, including assault and theft, in state courts.

[1][2] Ellis was fired as deputy district attorney after six months, which she attributed to her insistence that she would not prosecute a case she thought was unethical.

[1] Asked by The Wall Street Journal, the Weld County District Attorney's office declined to comment on the matter.

[1] In 2015, Ellis became an affiliate faculty member of Colorado Christian University, and later an assistant professor of legal studies, until her departure in 2018.

[2] Her view of the Supreme Court of the United States legalizing same-sex marriage, in Obergefell v. Hodges, was that it would lead to polygamy and pedophilia becoming accepted.

[3] She criticized Trump's attacks on the media and of his wish to tighten libel laws; when sharing a Washington Post article accusing him of seeking to destroy American democracy,[23] she claimed that Trump was incapable of handling criticism and that this rendered him "insanely dangerous to the fundamental American value [...] of freedom of speech".

[3] After Trump became the Republican nominee for president, Ellis abandoned her earlier opposition towards him and would later express support for him in the 2016 presidential election.

Ellis said that she now saw Trump as "a sincere Christian, the best president in modern history", and as having "kept his promises to the American people", and described herself as being "proud to stand with him and his goals for the future of [the United States] and all of its citizens.

[2][24] By late 2018, Ellis was defending Trump in cable news appearances, as well as alleging bias in the FBI, presenting herself as a "constitutional law attorney".

[4] In 2020, Ellis became the special counsel for the Thomas More Society, a conservative group that has filed 2020 election-related lawsuits via the Amistad Project organization.

[31] In the midst of a case regarding Michigan, the Trump campaign requested permission to amend their complaint but erroneously signed the judge's name as if he had already permitted them.

[32] On December 2, Ellis and Giuliani met with Michigan's House Oversight Committee, where they urged the lawmakers to ignore the certified results of a Biden victory.

[33][34] The Trump campaign's federal lawsuit regarding Pennsylvania was dismissed with prejudice with the judge citing "strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations" which were "unsupported by evidence".

[46] On December 4, Ellis and Giuliani met state lawmakers in Georgia, making efforts to overturn the 2020 election result.

[49][53] Meanwhile, in late November, Ellis and Giuliani ignored Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines to quarantine themselves despite coming into close contact with a known infected COVID-19 case: Boris Epshteyn, a Trump campaign adviser.

[51][54] On New Year's Eve 2020, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent a memo drafted by Ellis to a top Pence aide containing a detailed plan to overturn the election results.

If any state did not return their electoral slate by that date, neither Trump nor Biden would hold a majority, so the election would be thrown to the House for a vote to determine the winner.

[58][59] In April 2022, Ellis criticized the effort to repeal the Reedy Creek Improvement Act, calling it "misguided" and arguing that Disney has the "right to speak" and take a position on whether to support or oppose legislation "without government consequences.

"[62] Following the Club Q shooting in November 2022, Ellis claimed that the shooting was being exploited to present a narrative where "Christians hate homosexual and transgender individuals and somehow that 'hate' led to the shooting", before going on to suggest that there was "no evidence at all" that the five people killed at Club Q were Christians and thus, "assuming that [...] they had not accepted the truth of the gospel of Christ and affirmed Jesus Christ as the lord of their life, they are now reaping the consequences of having eternal damnation [...] Instead of just the tragedy of what happened to the body, we need to be talking about what happened to the soul and the fact that they are now in eternal separation from our lord and savior Jesus Christ."

She later rejected any claims of being hateful or judgmental towards the victims, but continued to insist on her assumption that they were not Christians and so were "eternally separated from Christ" as a result.

[63][64] In September 2023, Ellis said on her radio show on the right-wing organization American Family Radio that she cannot support Donald Trump "for elected office again" due to his "malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he's never done anything wrong ... And the total idolatry that I'm seeing from some of the supporters that are unwilling to put the constitution and the country and the conservative principles above their love for a star is really troubling.

"[65] That December, Ellis commented in the online Calendargate controversy, criticizing Ultra Right Beer, a conservative-themed beer brand established in the aftermath of the 2023 Bud Light boycott, for featuring female conservative personalities such as Riley Gaines, Dana Loesch and Kim Klacik in pin-up poses in a promotional calendar.

[9][73] On August 14, 2023, Ellis and 18 other people were indicted by a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury in the prosecution related to the 2020 United States presidential election in Georgia for allegedly participating in a criminal enterprise in furtherance of Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election.

"[81] Under the terms of her guilty plea, Ellis was sentenced to five years of probation, pay $5,000 in restitution and perform 100 hours of community service.

[86] Ellis was indicted as part of the legal team which advised Trump as he sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.