Profile

Catherine grew up in Uptown Minneapolis, graduating from Breck School in 1998. She spent her freshman year of college at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, before transferring to UMass Amherst, where she was a news writer and editor for the Massachusetts Daily Collegian. During college, she lived in Washington DC for a summer as an intern at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. There she worked for the Conflict Prevention Program. After graduation, she switched coasts and headed out to Oregon for law school at Lewis & Clark Law School. She spent two years working for the Federal Public Defender's office while in law school, contributing research and writing to the Brandon Mayfield case, among others. She returned to Minneapolis in the spring of 2005 to be closer to her family. She was welcomed into the Minnesota Bar in 2005. She worked for the Dakota County Public Defender’s office for two and a half years. Catherine currently lives in South Minneapolis, and practices criminal defense in the Twin Cities Metro area.