Jessica Thompson

**Jessica Thompson** is a registered character. She was created in July of 2020. She was 56th and second nonpartisan President of the United States.

## Biography

Jessica Thompson, an only child, born in Vice City, FL, July 31, 1988. She spent her years growing up traveling around the world or with her grandparents, due to her mother’s extensive military commitments. Her father showed no interest in Jess despite efforts and disappeared before she was born. Growing up as a single child, Jess was often inspired by her mother, a career naval officer and would spend hours following her mother's deployments and asking to hear stories about her duties.

Jess began her high school career at Vice City Academy inspired by her mother’s “can do” attitude she took her school years in her stride, achieving top grades in all given subjects. As a character Jess wouldn’t let anybody say to her something couldn’t be done, Jess would go out and achieve it. Jess would often get into fights and scrapes with boys in her peer group. Jess lived by the motto, if guys can do it, so can girls. This was to stick with Jess into her later life.

On completion of Jess’s schooling her mum retired from the Navy having served her full term reaching the rank of rear Admiral. During this time, Jess continued to live with her mother for three months before moving off to study Law at ULSA in Los Santos. Five days into her degree, Jess received a phone call that her mother had been involved in a collision with a DUI driver. Unfortunately, her mother had passed away at the scene. Jess made arrangements to return to Vice City the next day. The same day of her mother’s funeral Jess enlisted into the US Navy as a Master at Arms.

Jess, who was the only female in her cohort, struggled to make any friends in the first few phases of training. She was often told, “this is a man's world” or “go home and clean, you’re not built for this.” Jess continued to struggle on without any support from her peers, achieving best recruit and a Navy Recruit Honor Graduate Ribbon. Proving and cementing the fact that women were capable of competing in a man’s world. Jess completed 11 years in the Navy reaching the rank of Captain and making many friends along the way. In 2019, Jess retired from Naval Duty and actively took part in a vets2cops scheme, entering the Del Perro Police as a Lt. Due to her distinguished military service. Her experience allowed her to swiftly climb the ladder in Del Perro, becoming the Chief of Police.

After her service in Del Perro, she was nominated as the next Sheriff of Blaine County, leading the local sheriff's office with no tolerance for crime. Not long after this, she was appointed as the Commissioner of the San Andreas Highway Patrol by then-Governor of the state, Alfred Skiterrly. Leading the largest law enforcement agency in the United States allowed her to make more impactful decisions. Quickly, she earned national praise for policies that reduced road fatalities and violent crime. Other agencies, including in San Andreas and nationwide, adopted similar policies to the ones she implemented.

In May of 2022, Jessica launched an independent bid for President of the United States, accompanied by her ex-husband and then-Mayor of Los Santos, Cosmic Miller. In a stunning turn of events on Election Day, the duo would defeat incumbent President Mike Kushner with 50% of the vote. She accomplished the impossible by becoming the second nonpartisan president in American history. Jessica was inaugurated as the 56th President of the United States on July 17, 2022. She left the White House in March of 2023 after only serving one term.

## Personality

Jess is your typical girly girl; however don’t let this fool you. She is strong minded and very opinionated and won’t let the fact that she is a girl be taken for granted, Often excelling at anything she does. Jess stands by equality and fairness for all. Despite this, Jess is a very friendly and personal and will often do all she can for the help of others. Jess is very intellectual, respectful and well mannered.

Jess has a keen eye for detail and is a motorcycle enthusiast and fitness obsessed, she loves nothing more than meeting new people, shopping or riding her motorcycle out into the county.

## FIB Database record

 **Status:** | Not a threat

 **Criminal Record**: | * None

* Former SAHP Comissioner.
* Former Sheriff of Blaine County.
* Former Chief of the Del Perro Police Department.
* 11 years of service in the US Navy.
* Born in Florida.