Legal and Political Career
The Quayles worked as attorneys in Huntington, Indiana at a law practice, Quayle and Quayle. The couple suspended their practice after he was elected to Congress in 1976. After the family moved to the Washington, D.C. area in 1977, Marilyn remained actively involved in Dan Quayle's career. She offered him advice on strategy, clipped relevant articles, and read his paperwork at home.
When Dan Quayle was elected Vice President in 1988, the governor of Indiana Robert Orr offered to appoint Marilyn Quayle to the Senate seat vacated by her husband. She declined, citing a potential conflict of interest with the George H. W. Bush administration.
During her husband's term as Vice President of the United States, Marilyn Quayle served on the board of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as Chairman of the International Disasters Advisory Committee for the Agency for International Development, and as the National Cancer Institute's national spokesperson for NCI's Breast Cancer Summits. She also served on the United States' special high-level council for the International Decade for Natural Hazard Reduction. She shares her husband's Republican opposition to abortion and the ERA.
Her Secret Service codename was, or is, "Sunshine".
In a speech before the 1992 Republican National Convention, Quayle dismissed Bill Clinton's claim to a new generation of leadership, saying, "Not everyone demonstrated, dropped out, took drugs, joined in the sexual revolution or dodged the draft."
In the 1990s, Marilyn Quayle authored or co-authored several books, including two works of thriller fiction written with her sister, Nancy Tucker Northcott. The novels (Embrace The Serpent and The Campaign) follow a fictional black evangelical Republican senator who becomes the victim of a liberal-media smear campaign and an unnamed Democratic president of questionable morality. The senator eventually clears his name and the novels conclude with the suicide of the Democratic president. She also wrote Moments that Matter with her husband.
Marilyn Quayle served as a strong force behind her husband's bid in the United States presidential election, 2000. His campaign ended early, prior to any primary voting, after establishment Republican backing aligned behind George W. Bush.
Actively involved in a number of charitable causes, Marilyn Quayle has placed a special emphasis on disaster preparedness and breast cancer research. Her mother died of breast cancer at the age of 56.
Quayle is currently a partner in the law firm of Krieg, DeVault, Alexander & Capehart, where she practices general corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, international law, and health care law. When she took the job in 1993, it was announced that she would be referred to as Marilyn Tucker Quayle.
In 2010, Quayle narrated an advertisement for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Karen Handel.
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