Her undergraduate education was at Grinnell College, where she majored in philosophy with a focus on postmodern and feminist thinkers. Her law degree is from the University of Iowa, where she served as a managing editor for the Iowa Law Review and was named Outstanding Woman Law Graduate. Professor McCormick began her legal career as a staff attorney with the International Human Rights Law Institute where she directed analysis and research of allegations of sexual violence committed during the war in what was then Yugoslavia. She then went to the Illinois Attorney General’s office where she litigated civil appeals in state and federal courts. She left the Illinois Attorney General’s office to join the faculty at Chicago Kent and recently moved to Cumberland. Professor McCormick recently answered a few questions for FeministLawProfs.