Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has recently drawn media fire as only a conservative activist can.
I’ve known Ginni Thomas since she worked at the Heritage Foundation and attended a writing seminar I was teaching there about 20 years ago. At the time, she was a sweet, eager-to-learn 40-something who happened to be married to a man who sat on the land’s highest court. Not many Americans knew her name, though she sat next to her husband during his grueling 1991 confirmation hearings — led then by an imperious Delaware senator named Joe Biden.
