Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has asked the Trump administration to commute her prison sentence.
Holmes, 41, was sentenced to 11.25 years in November 2022 after being convicted of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
According to the Office of the Pardon Attorney’s public database, Holmes filed the request in 2025, and it remained pending as of January 2026. No additional details about the request were immediately available.
Holmes began serving her sentence at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas in May 2023 after a series of delays. Her projected release date has been reduced for good behavior, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons lists her expected release as Dec. 31, 2031.
Holmes’ attorney was contacted for comment. The White House declined to comment.
Holmes had sought to overturn her conviction on appeal, but the effort was denied in early 2025. She was convicted alongside Sunny Balwani, her former boyfriend and the former president of the now-defunct blood-testing startup. Balwani’s 13-year prison sentence was also upheld on appeal.
Holmes founded Theranos in 2003 at age 19 and surged to national prominence years later as the company’s CEO. Prosecutors said the company misled investors by claiming its technology could run hundreds of medical tests using only a few drops of blood.
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At trial, Holmes’ defense argued she was inexperienced and did not intend to defraud investors. Prosecutors countered that she knew the claims were false.
In her first interview from prison, Holmes continued to insist she was innocent and spoke about the toll her incarceration has taken on her family, including being separated from her two young children and her partner, Billy Evans.
“The people I love the most have to walk away as I stand here, a prisoner, and my reality sinks in,” she said. “It kills me to put my family through pain the way I do. But when I look back on my life, and these angels that have come into it, I can get through anything. It makes me want to fight for all of it.”
