At Rochester:

• Captain of the women's basketball and volleyball teams
• Winner of the Merle Spurrier Award in 1977

Post-Graduate:

• Attended the University of Virginia where she earned an M.A. in English 1978
• Earned a Ph.D. in English from Indiana University in 1984
• Worked as an instructor in English at Lawrence University in Wisconsin and was promoted to Assistant Professor after receiving her doctorate
• Left in 1987 to enroll in law school at the University of Wisconsin where she received her J.D. in 1990
• Began private practice in Minneapolis, MN in 1990 and joined a Madison, WI law firm two years later
• In the summer of 1994, she accepted an offer to teach as a visiting assistant professor of English at Lawrence
• In 1996, began working in current job as a legislative attorney for the State of Wisconsin's Legislative Reference Bureau