Callista Gingrich

Callista Louise Gingrich, née Bisek (born March 4, 1966) is the President of Gingrich Productions, a multimedia production company based in Washington, D.C. She is married to former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. Callista Louise Bisek, known as "Cally Lou" to her family, was born to Alphonse Emil Bisek and Bernita (Krause) Bisek in Whitehall, Wisconsin. Her father worked in a packing plant and her mother was a secretary. She graduated as valedictorian from Whitehall Memorial High School in 1984. A music student from childhood, Bisek attended Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, majoring in music and joining the Delta Alpha Delta sorority. She graduated cum laude in 1988, and considered studying broadcast journalism at Emerson College in Boston, where she was accepted into their graduate progam. Instead of going to Emerson, however, she accepted an internship in 1988 in Washington DC, in the office of Republican...