After graduating from Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley

After graduating from Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, began her legal career by clerking for United States District Court Judge David F. Levi, in Sacramento, California from 1993 to 1994. Ms. then worked in private practice for seven years, including as a litigation associate at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco and a trial associate with Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and London, England. Ms. remained in civil practice, specializing in intellectual property litigation until July 2001, when she was hired by the USAO in Miami. . While she enjoyed civil practice, Ms. always wanted to be an Assistant United States Attorney. Two early career mentors - Judge Levi and Portia Moore from Morrison & Foerster - had worked at U.S. Attorney's Offices' and they, like many former AUSAs, described the job as the best of their careers. Ms. also wanted to serve her community. She was in the first generation of her fami