Education

The George Washington University (B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, 2009)
University of Cambridge (M.Phil., 2010)
UCLA School of Law (J.D., 2013)

Experience

Law Clerk to the Honorable John A. Jarvey, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa (2013-2014)
Law Clerk to the Honorable Mark W. Bennett, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa (2014-2015)
Law Clerk to the Honorable Michael J. Melloy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (2015-2016)
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida (2016-2020)

Admissions

Iowa – 2013
Southern District of Iowa – 2014
Northern District of Iowa – 2014
Illinois – 2022
Central District of Illinois – 2022
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit – 2022

Professional Associations

Member, Iowa State Bar Association
Member, Federal Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Scott County Bar Association
Member, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Member, Iowa Defense Counsel Association

• Member, Board of Editors for Defense Update (2021-present)

Member, Association of the Bar of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Member, The Dillon American Inn of Court, Chapter of the American Inns of Court Foundation
Fellow, Iowa State Bar Foundation
Member, Federal Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panels (2022)
Member, Illinois State Bar Association
Member, Rock Island County Bar Association

Honors

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Criminal Defense: White Collar)
• Listed in Great Plains Super Lawyers Rising Stars (Civil Litigation)
• Public Interest Law Initiative’s Pro Bono Volunteer Honor Roll (2023)
• Iowa State Bar Association Pro Bono Honor Roll (2022)
• Outstanding Individual Achievement in Oral Argument, Roger J. Traynor California Appellate Moot Court Competition (Spring 2012)
• Outstanding Oral Advocate, UCLA Moot Court Competition (Fall 2011)

Community

Member, Board of Trustees, Quad City Symphony Orchestra (2021-Present)
Member, Board of Directors, YMCA of the Iowa Mississippi Valley (2022-Present)

Speeches & Publications

Co-Presenter, “Why Clerk? A View From Chambers on Judicial Clerkships,” University of Iowa College of Law (September 2015)

Co-Author, “A Fresh Look at Jurors Questioning Witnesses: A Review of Eighth Circuit and Iowa Appellate Precedents and an Empirical Analysis of Federal and State Trial Judges and Trial Lawyers,” 64 Drake Law Review 485 (2016)

Co-Presenter, “Allocution,” Twenty-Eighth Annual National Seminar on Federal Sentencing (August 2019)

Presenter, “Project Guardian,” Presented to local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies on the United States Department of Justice’s initiative started in November 2019 designed to reduce gun violence and enforce federal firearms laws across the country, United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida (May 2020)

Co-Presenter, “Jury Selection for Defense (Civil),” Dillon Inn of Court (April 2022)

Co-Presenter, “Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952) (‘The Steel Seizure Case’) and the Limits of Executive Power,” Dillon Inn of Court (October 2022)