[1] Before law school, she worked at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

[1] At Yale, she won the Potter Stewart Prize for winning the Morris Tyler Moot Court.

[1] From 2006 to 2008, she served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Joseph Melloy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

[1] When she worked in Cedar Rapids from 2004 to 2011, she coached the University of Iowa College of Law's moot court team.

[3] She received a hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on October 21, 2015.