Darby Thorne is the Senior Managing Associate with Holtzman Vogel, providing counsel in the areas of campaign finance, election law, lobbying and ethics compliance, and tax-exempt organizations. She specializes in advising political committees, corporations, and tax-exempt organizations on a variety of regulatory and political law matters. She has extensive experience in ethics and gifts rules, lobbying disclosure, charitable solicitation and professional fundraising compliance.
Darby served as Deputy General Counsel to the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the 2020 election cycle where she advised the committee on matters of campaign finance, election law, and Senate ethics compliance. Previously, she served as Assistant Special Counsel in the Office of White House Counsel and as the Director of Gift Protocol where she established gift protocol and procedures for the White House. Before that she was associate counsel for the 58th Presidential Inaugural Committee. She served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Clifford J. Proud, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, and a legal intern at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri.
Prior to law school, she was awarded an Eisenhower Internship at the Republican National Committee and interned for U.S. Senator Jim Talent in his Washington, DC office. She has worked as an attorney for multiple government agencies and has worked on various political campaigns.