She began serving on the Commission February 3, 2016. Her father was a career army officer, she was born when her parents were stationed at Ft. Knox, Kentucky and she grew up living many different places. She is a graduate of the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California where she majored in Journalism. She has a Doctorate in Jurisprudence from Southwestern University School of Law and did additional post-graduate training on Mediation at the Strauss Institute at the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California.