[2] She earned her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Spring Hill College, and her Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law, where she served as chair of the John A. Campbell Moot Court Board and as a senior editor of the University of Alabama Law & Psychology Review.

[6] On January 3, 2018, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate.

[7] On January 5, 2018, President Donald Trump announced his intent to renominate Marks to a federal judgeship.

[12] In September 2021, The Wall Street Journal published an investigation into 131 federal judges who were alleged to have broken the law by presiding over cases in which they had a financial interest.

[13] In October 2022, Marks invoked qualified immunity to deny the family of a cancer patient the right to sue the policeman who killed him.