She received her J.D. from U.C. Hastings College of the Law in 2004, and her B.S. in Psychobiology and B.A. in Women’s Studies from University of California Los Angeles in 2000. In law school, Ms. Milanes was a teaching assistant in Legal Writing and Research and Moot Court, an Executive Symposium Editor on the Hastings Women’s Law Journal, and a judicial extern to the Honorable Ernest Goldsmith of the San Francisco Superior Court. Following law school, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Eden E. Hifo (retired) of the First Circuit Court of Hawaii.