[1] Previously, she has served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2013 to 2021.

A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represented District 51B in the southern Twin Cities metropolitan area.

She later attended the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

[4][5] She supported the bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Minnesota.

[6] Halverson and her husband, Jason, have one child and reside in Eagan, Minnesota.