Following graduation from law school, Lindberg served as a law clerk for Monroe G. McKay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Following her clerkships, Lindberg practiced as an appellate and healthcare lawyer in the Washington, D.C. offices of two national law firms.
In 1995 Lindberg returned to Utah and worked as in-house counsel for a subsidiary of Aetna Life and Casualty Company.
[4] Lindberg has also been the judge involved in the case of the United Effort Plan and the attempts to reform it in order to pay those who are owed money by it as the result of lawsuits.
Lindberg served with her husband as a church-service missionary assigned to a Spanish-speaking branch in Taylorsville, Utah.
[7] In 2018, Lindberg gave an address on religious freedom at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra law school in the Dominican Republic.