THE PARDON LEDGER · COMMUTATION

Holly Leanne Frantzen

Edited by The Inner Circle LedgerLedger updated Sep 30, 2026

Status of the full grant: Granted; all 30 listed by DOJ, no documented payments
Clemency: Commutation · Sep 3, 2026
District: Northern District of Texas
Part of: September 2026 batch of 30
The case: The Justice Department lists her conviction as conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance.

WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS

The Justice Department list records the commutation on September 3, 2026, one of six commutations in a batch that also carried twenty-three pardons. It gives her sentencing date as December 23, 2016 and her sentence as 200 months' imprisonment plus four years' supervised release.

Frantzen is one of eleven of the thirty recipients that former U.S. Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer was able to identify when she wrote on September 8, and one of only four named in White House pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson's announcement. Oyer wrote that Frantzen and Shemika Williams appeared to be regular people with little public profile whose cases were supported by traditional clemency advocacy organizations. The Ledger ran all thirty names in this grant against FEC contribution records for the 2024 and 2026 cycles and found no contribution it could tie to a recipient.

RESPONSE

White House pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson, announcing the grants in a September 4 post on X, wrote that September 3 was “a powerful day for second chances” and described the thirty as “deserving individuals” whose cases her team had reviewed; former U.S. Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer recorded that Frantzen was one of only four recipients Johnson named. The cited reports carry no statement from Frantzen or her lawyers.

Correction to the shared entry, September 2026 batch of 30. An earlier version said Emory Jones did not appear on the Justice Department list and described his case as a 2000 conspiracy. The list shows his pardon dated September 8, 2026, and gives October 15, 2000 as his sentencing date. Corrected September 18, 2026.

SOURCES FOR THE FULL GRANT

This grant is recorded in full at September 2026 batch of 30, which carries the shared record and every source cited here. A connection recorded here is not proof that it bought the outcome. How entries are labeled · Submit a correction or response · Download the ledger

WHAT THE RECORD SHOWS

RESPONSE

SOURCES FOR THE FULL GRANT

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