She received her Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989 and her Juris Doctor with highest honors from Stanford Law School in 1993.

Krause returned to Philadelphia in 2003, where she joined Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin as a shareholder.

[1] Since 2003, she has regularly taught courses at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she founded an appellate litigation externship program.

[1] On February 6, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Krause to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, to the seat vacated by Judge Dolores Sloviter, who assumed senior status on June 21, 2013.

[4] On June 24, 2014, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on the nomination.