Appointed/Elected:

Appointed Jan. 18, 2019, by Governor Mark Dayton. Elected in 2020. Current terms expires Jan. 2027.

Education:

J.D., William Mitchell College of Law
B.A., University of Windsor

Past Employment:

• Senior Assistant Hennepin County Attorney
• Criminal prosecutor, Office of the Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney
• Assistant Hennepin County Attorney
• Litigation associate, Rider Bennet, L.L.P.
• Assistant Scott County Attorney
• Judicial law clerk, Honorable Mary Steenson-Dufrene

Judicial Assignments:

• Criminal (Downtown), January 2019 to January 2021 (Lead Judge for the Downtown Team July 2020 to January 2021)
• Family Court,  February 2021 to December 2021
• Juvenile Court, January 2022 to Feb 2025 (Assistant Presiding January 2022 to July 2023)
• Civil, March 2025 to present

Professional and Community Activities:

• Member, Fourth Judicial District Budget Committee
• Mentor, Judicial Externship Program, University of St. Thomas Law School
• Current member and former Secretary, Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers
• Adjunct Legal Writing Professor- Mitchell Hamline
• Past President of the Mitchell Hamline Alumni Board of Directors
• Former member of the Mitchell Hamline Board of Directors
• Former Member of the Minnesota County Attorney’s Association
• Former Member of the Domestic Fatality Review Committee
• Former Big Sister