Jennifer (she/her) earned her Bachelor’s Degree in French from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She earned a Master in Teaching Degree from Seattle University and spent six years as a high-school French teacher. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Seattle University School of Law in 2006, where she was one of only two members of her graduating class to receive the Faculty Scholar Award for academic excellence and significant contributions to the law school community.

Jennifer has also won awards for legal writing and appellate advocacy and was on the editorial staff of the Seattle Journal for Social Justice. Prior to joining Nielsen Koch & Grannis in 2008, Jennifer worked on numerous criminal appeals as a contract attorney and she was a law clerk for Justice Tom Chambers at the Washington Supreme Court.