[1] She then worked briefly for the West Virginia Office of the Attorney General before joining the law firm King, Betts & Allen.

[1] In 1999, Thacker moved to Washington, D.C. to work as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.

[1] She also was part of the team that prosecuted the first case the United States ever brought involving the Violence Against Women Act.

[1] In July 2011, the West Virginia Record reported that President Obama would select Thacker to the judicial vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that was created by the death of Judge M. Blane Michael.

[5] In October 2017, Thacker wrote for the panel majority when it found that the Bladensburg Peace Cross memorial from World War I now violated the Constitution's Establishment Clause and ordering either its arms removed or the entire monument razed.