[1] She has held a number of jobs, including working at a blueberry farm, as a waitress, and as a babysitter, and campaigned for Amendment 2, an ultimately successful constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Florida in 2008, and for her mother, Patricia Sullivan, who unsuccessfully ran for the Congress in the Republican primary in 2010 in the 8th congressional district.

[2] In 2014, incumbent State Representative Bryan Nelson was term limited and Sullivan ran to succeed him.

[3] The Orlando Sentinel endorsed Grassel, criticizing Sullivan in an editorial for being "steeped in tea-party dogmatism that has contributed to polarized governance.

[6] Sullivan previously promoted her 2014 "AQ" rating from the NRA Political Victory Fund.

[7][8] In 2016, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Sullivan distributed campaign literature stating she was a "protector of your 2nd Amendment rights.