(Left) Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes in a family portrait presented during her trial on November 10, 2022. Her father Christian was chief financial officer and third-ranked executive at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under former President George H.W. Bush. In a letter of support filed in court ahead of Holmes’ sentencing, Christian said Holmes grew up going to church, and loved to collect pebbles, leaves, acorns and bugs from a canal near the family’s home in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy of U.S. District Court, San Jose)
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes as a child held by her mother Noel in a family photo filed in court on November 10, 2022 before Holmes’ sentencing. Noel was a regular attendee at Holmes’ fraud trial, holding her daughter’s hand as they walked in and out of federal court in San Jose. (Photo courtesy of U.S. District Court, San Jose)
Left: A young Elizabeth Holmes writes that “I try to do right” in response to a school worksheet question about the most important thing to know about her. Right: Holmes implores readers of her Recipe for How to Make Friends to not “ever pour pressure on anyone” and to toss in the Golden Rule and “treat others like you want to be treated.” (Photo courtesy of U.S. District Court, San Jose)
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, with dog, in a family portrait filed in court November 10, 2022 before her sentencing. Holmes’ parents Noel and Christian were regulars at her four-month fraud trial in San Jose. Jurors during the trial heard Holmes hired her brother Christian, left, as a senior manager at Theranos, and he, in turn, brought onboard a half-dozen of his college pals. (Photo courtesy of U.S. District Court, San Jose)
A young Elizabeth Holmes repping Stanford University in an archival photo filed in court November 10, 2022 before her sentencing on fraud charges. Holmes dropped out of Stanford her sophomore year. She testified at her trial that while there, she researched microfluidics, the science of tiny liquid volumes, key to Theranos’ technology. (Photo courtesy of U.S. District Court, San Jose)
Channeling Steve Jobs: Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, California on Sept. 8, 2014, when her charisma – and adoption of the trademark black turtleneck of Apple co-founder Jobs – were making her famous as a rare young female tech entrepreneur. A year later, the Wall Street Journal would run the first of a series of exposés leading to her spectacular downfall. (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
Before the fall: Elizabeth Holmes speaks about her company’s vision at Theranos’ headquarters on July 3, 2014, in Palo Alto, California. Jurors during Holmes fraud trial heard that Theranos maintained ultra-high security at its buildings, and touted secrecy around its technology as the reason for keeping investors and inspectors out of purportedly sensitive areas. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, listens as Vice-President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to Theranos’ manufacturing facility in Newark, Calif., on Thursday, July 23, 2015. Biden toured the facility and took part in a roundtable discussion on preventive health care, innovation and the role of the private sector in expanding access. Holmes drew numerous former government officials onto her board, including secretaries of defense and state. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
Former US President Bill Clinton (L) and Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes listen as Alibaba Group executive chairman Jack Ma (R) speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York on September 29, 2015. Holmes had a high-flying lifestyle involving private jets, posh accommodations and what prosecutors described as “high-end merchandise.” Judge Edward Davila in her criminal case ruled that the prosecution could not use brand names before jurors, as that could appeal to “class prejudice,” despite the likelihood that with every purchase “she knew her fraudulent activity allowed her to pay for those items.” (Joshua Lott/AFP via Getty Images)
CEO and founder of Theranos Elizabeth Holmes (L) and Congresswoman Jackie Speier attend the Women In Technology and Politics dinner hosted by Glamour and Facebook at The Battery on August 16, 2016 in San Francisco, California. Holmes was widely admired by progressive women who saw her smashing glass ceilings on the way to success in a male-dominated technology industry. (Kimberly White/Getty Images for Glamour)
Elizabeth Holmes (L) and Alan Murray speak at the Fortune Global Forum at the Fairmont Hotel on November 2, 2015 in San Francisco, California. For her fraud trial, she traded the black turtleneck look she appropriated from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs for business skirt suits. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for Fortune)
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, center, and her family leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse after the jury found her guilty on four counts in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Holmes was found guilty of four counts of defrauding investors, each carrying a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
Elizabeth Holmes arrives at federal court in San Jose, Calif., on Oct. 17, 2022, for a hearing in which a witness from her criminal fraud trial testified that he believed she was pregnant. Her partner Billy Evans, the father of their 15-month-old son born weeks before her trial started, confirmed the pregnancy in a later court filing. Legal experts say Judge Edward Davila will likely factor in her child and coming newborn in deciding on her fraud sentence Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. (Jeff Chiu/Associated Press)
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, her husband Billy Evans and their dog Balto in a photo collage filed in court November 10, 2022 before her sentencing. Evans filed a statement claiming media attention drove them out of town onto the road for a six-month camping trip. Balto, Holmes’ husky dog that she reported described as a wolf, was later killed by a cougar, Evans said in the statement. (Photo courtesy of U.S. District Court, San Jose)
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes arrives at the federal courthouse in San Jose for her sentencing hearing on Friday, Nov. 18 accompanied by her father Christian Holmes, her mother, Noel Holmes, and her partner, Billy Evans. Holmes is now pregnant with her second child. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
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