Lindsey Halligan | |
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 Halligan in 2025 | |
| Education | Regis University University of Miami School of Law |
| Years active | 2014–present |
| Political party | Republican |
Lindsey Halligan is an American lawyer who is currently serving as a Special Assistant to the President in the second Trump administration. She previously practiced insurance law in Florida, before joining Donald Trump's legal team in 2022. [1] Trump has tasked her with removing "improper ideology" from the Smithsonian Institution. [2]
Halligan attended Holy Family High school, and after graduation attended Regis University in Denver and earned a degree in political science and broadcast journalism. [2] She competed in the Miss Colorado USA pageant twice in 2009 she was a semifinalist, and in 2010 she was third runner up. [2]
She attended Regis University, where she obtained her degree in politics. [3] She was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2014. [1]
Halligan was a partner at Cole, Scott and Kissane in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and handled residential and commercial insurance claims. [3] [1] [4] [5] [6] [2]
Halligan was second chair to another lawyer defending an insurance company at a two-day trial against three Miami homeowners who had suffered damaged roofs. A judge would not award her attorneys fees because he ruled that her team did not act "in good faith." [7]
Halligan has represented former US president Donald Trump since 2022. By August 2022, she had never handled a federal case. [6] [8] She was at Mar-a-Lago during the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, quickly became involved in Trump's lawsuit in October 2022 against CNN for allegedly comparing Trump to Hitler, and has been involved in his defense against the federal government in the classified documents case. [9] [7] [10] [11]
Halligan is the local counsel for the case spawned by the FBI's execution of a search warrant at Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago, which Halligan said came as a "huge surprise," in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and filed the Motions to Appear Pro Hac Vice for Evan Corcoran and James Trusty, initially on August 22, 2022. [12] [8] She was one of the few lawyers working for Trump who was on site during the FBI search. [13] [14] [15] She said Trump's subsequent indictment goes "for the jugular". [16] [17]
Trump's Save America PAC paid Halligan $212,000 from June 2022 to June 2023. [18]
In a March 2025 executive order, Trump tasked Halligan and Vice President J.D. Vance with removing "improper ideology" regarding portrayal of race in American history in the Smithsonian Institution. [19] [2] She currently serves as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Associate Staff Secretary in the Trump Administration. [19]
