Appointed/Elected:
Appointed September 6, 2017, by Governor Mark Dayton. Elected in 2018. Current term expires January 2025.
Education:
- J.D., with distinction, University of North Dakota School of Law
- B.A. University of North Dakota
Past Employment:
- Range Division Head, St. Louis County Attorney’s Office
- Assistant County Attorney, St. Louis County Attorney’s Office
- Associate Attorney, Prebich and Sullivan, P.C.
- Judicial Law Clerk, Sixth Judicial District, Hon. Gary J. Pagliaccetti
Professional Memberships:
- Admitted to the Minnesota State Bar and the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
- Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure
- Minnesota State Bar Association
- Minnesota Women Lawyers
- Minnesota District Judges Foundation/Association
Professional and Community Activites:
- Range Hybrid Court Team Member
- Range Mental Health Court Team Member
- Range Treatment Court Team Member
- Iron Range Equal Justice Committee
- BRIDGEs
- Hoops Club, volunteer
- Sixth Judicial District Children’s Justice Initiative (CJI) Committee Member
- CJI Indian Child Welfare Act Subcommittee Member
- Sixth District Re-engineering Committee Member
- Sixth District Pandemic Steering Committee Member
- Sixth District Administrative Committee Member
- Judicial Conference Planning Committee, 2019
- Former Vice-President, Mountain Iron-Buhl Parent Teacher Association
- Former member, YMCA Strategic Planning Committee
- Former board member, Independent School District #712, Mountain Iron-Buhl
- Former Vice-President, Sexual Assault Program of Northern St. Louis County Board of Directors
- Former member, Do Good Club
- Former member, Lake Superior Drug and Violent Crime Task Force Advisory Board
- Former member, Arrowhead Peace Officer Association
- Former member, Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Violence