[3] From 2006 to 2012, Calvert was an associate at King & Spalding in Atlanta, where she represented clients in the Special Matters and Government Investigations group.

[3] Calvert was part of the legal team for Nicholas Bryant, who challenged the death sentence he received for murder during an armed robbery.

Calvert argued that assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon did not qualify as a predicate crime of violence.

President Biden nominated Calvert to the seat vacated by Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr., who assumed senior status on May 8, 2021.

[9] On January 3, 2022, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate;[10] she was later renominated the same day.