Fani Taifa Willis [3] (née Floyd; / f ɑː n iː /, FAH-nee; [3] born October 27, 1971) [1] [2] is an American attorney. She is the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, which contains most of Atlanta, serving since 2021. [4] She is the first woman to hold the office. [5]

6 days ago · L: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Atlanta on October 22, 2024. R: Then-special counsel Jack Smith speaks in Washington, D.C., on August 1, 2023.

Jan 28, 2025 · Fani Willis recently asked a court in Georgia not to appoint a special master in response to her office's repeat violations of Peach State open records laws. "Defendant vigorously objects to the appointment of a Special Master in this open records lawsuit because it is not a form of relief provided under the Open Records Act, it is unprecedented."

Mar 15, 2024 · Fulton County's first female district attorney has been spared the humiliation of being kicked off the highest-profile case of her career - prosecuting Donald Trump - because of her affair...

Feb 20, 2024 · Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was at the center of courtroom drama last week over whether she should be disqualified from an election fraud case in Georgia against former...

Aug 14, 2023 · ATLANTA (AP) — Long before the FBI began investigating Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents or Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special prosecutor to probe the former...

Jan 23, 2024 · Fani Willis, as the Fulton County district attorney, hired Nathan Wade as an outside consultant to work as a special prosecutor on the election subversion case. The hiring occurred while...

Fani Willis is the widely respected District Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, which contains most of Atlanta. She was elected to this position in 2020 with 72 percent of the vote and assumed office in January 2021.

Feb 16, 2024 · Willis was the lead prosecutor in the eight-month trial, the longest in state history, that ended in 2015 with 11 teachers and educators convicted of racketeering. The case was controversial. Many in the community didn't like the idea of teachers being charged under the RICO Act, a statute famous for bringing down mafia members.

5 days ago · DOJ Ordered To Disclose Correspondence Between Fani Willis and Jack Smith Amid Accusations of ‘Collusion’ in Their Pursuit of Trump. A federal judge orders the Department of Justice to respond to a request for evidence of coordination between the two prosecutors. Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, testifies about her romance ...