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.

Clerkship/Government Experience
  • Deputy General Counsel, National Republican Senatorial Committee during the 2020 election cycle
  • Assistant Special Counsel, Office of White House Counsel and as the Director of Gift Protocol
  • Associate Counsel,  58th Presidential Inaugural Committee
  • Judicial Intern, the Honorable Clifford J. Proud, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
  • Legal Intern, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Missouri
  • Republican National Lawyers Association
    • Chair of the DC Young Lawyers Chapter
  • Missouri State Society
    • President, 2016
  • 2022 Maverick PAC ‘Future 40’ Award Honoree
  • American University Women & Politics WeLead Campaign Training Program Class of 2022-2023

Related Practice Areas
  • Saint Louis University School of Law, J.D.
  • Saint Louis University, , Masters, Public Health-Health Policy
  • University of Rochester, B.A., Political Science, Minor in Management
    • Varsity Women’s Soccer Team
    • Wendy Jill Fread Prize
  • Missouri Bar (Darby’s practice is limited to matters of federal law.)
Darby W. Thorne