About Ginny Foat

Virginia "Ginny" Foat (born June 2, 1941) is an American politician who is a former member of the Palm Springs, California city council.

Born to August ("Gus") and Virginia Galluzzo, Foat graduated from Grace Downs Academy and became a flight attendant. She married Danny Angelillo in 1961, but the marriage was annulled in 1963, at which time she learned that she was pregnant. She went to live at a home for unwed mothers, where she stayed until she had the baby, which was given up for adoption.

After her return home, she married bartender John "Jack" Sidote in 1965. In her 1985 autobiography, she describes enduring five years of domestic violence, receiving her first beating on their honeymoon. Sidote was eventually convicted of manslaughter in California in the 1967 slaying of Okeni Moe.

She married Ray Foat in 1971, attended her first National Organization for Women meeting in 1974, and quickly moved up the ranks within the organization.