Education

• B.A., Grinnell College, 1992 With Honors, IES Madrid Semester Program, Phi Beta Kappa
• J.D., DePaul University College of Law, 1996 With Honors, Order of the Coif, Member, DePaul Law Review.

Admitted to Practice

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
  
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
  
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
  
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
  
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
  

Bar Memberships

• Illinois - 1996
• Iowa - 2002

Publications

• Minnesota Laborers Health and Welfare Fund v. Scanlan: How Employee Benefit-Related Documents are Signed May Impact Personal Liability Under ERISA
  
• All Aliens Required to Report Change in Address to INS
  
• Global Crossing...Adelphia...Qwest: What Now?
  

Memberships

Polk County (Bench and Bar Committee), Iowa State (Federal Practice Committee) and American (Member, Litigation Section) Bar Associations.  C. Edwin Moore Inn of Iowa (Barrister).  East High School Alumni Scholarship Foundation (Board Member); East High School Alumni Scholarship Foundation, Scholarship Committee (Co-Chair).

Background

Several years' experience in complex commercial litigation, including securities law, creditors rights, employment litigation and construction litigation.

Selected for inclusion in the 2009 and 2010 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of General Commercial Litigation.  Also selected as one of the Des Moines Business Record's Forty Under 40 honorees for 2010.

Published Articles:

"When Justice is Lost in the 'Translation'. . . Gonzalez v. United States, an Interpretation of the Court Interpreters Act of 1978," 45 DePaul Law Rev. 435 (1995).