courts of admission
  • United States Supreme Court
  • Wisconsin Supreme Court
  • Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
  • Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • Western District of Wisconsin

Professional
involvement
  • Appellate Practice Section, Wisconsin Bar Association
    • Chairperson (2023-present)
    • Board Member (2020-present)
  • Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association
    • Co-chair Newsletter Committee (2022-2023)
    • Member (2020-present)
  • ​American Company of Irish Dance
    • ​Board Member (2021-2022)

presentations
  • Small Group Leader, Wis. State Public Def. Appellate Skills Academy 2022 (June 8-10, 2022) (with Ellen Krahn)
  • Advanced Crimmigration Topics for Immigration & Defense Lawyers: Postconviction Relief for Noncitizens in Wisconsin, Wis. Bar Ass'n Seminar (Jan. 9, 2020) (with Benjamin Crouse)
  • Case Dismissed: Why the Intrastate Detainer Statute Should be on Your Radar, Wis. State Public Def. Conf. (Nov. 7, 2019)
  • Case Dismissed: Why the Intrastate Detainer Statute Should be on Your Radar, Wis. Assn. Criminal Def. Lawyers Annual Conf. (Apr. 26, 2018)
  • Strategies to Effectively Argue Prejudice in IAC Claims, Wis. State Public Def. Conf. (Nov. 16, 2017) (panel with Robert Henak and Suzanne Hagopian)
  • Defeating the Simple, Cruel Expedient: How the Fifth Amendment Protects Probationers, Wis. State Public Def. Conf. (Nov. 12, 2015) (with Michael Soukup)
  • Humanities Career Panel: What Jobs can I get after Graduate School, UWM Research Foundation, Inc., (Nov. 7, 2014)
  • Philosophical Theories of Punishment in the Wisconsin Criminal Justice System, Moral Problems: Punishment Course, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (April 29, 2014)
  • What's the Merit in That? How to Handle No Merit Appeal, Wis. State Public Def. Conf. (Nov. 7, 2013)(with Amelia Bizzaro)
  • What is a Direct Appeal and How Does it Work, Prison Action Milwaukee Monthly Meeting (May 18, 2013)
  • Being an Appellate Lawyer in Milwaukee, Appellate Writing & Advocacy Course, Marquette University Law School (Nov. 17, 2011)(panelist)

publications
  • Book Review: Civil War Lawyers: Constitutional Questions, Courtroom Dramas, & the Men Behind Them, Wisconsin Lawyer (Nov. 2011)
  • The Unconstitutionality of DOMA+INA, 18 Geo. Mason U. Civ. Rts. L.J. 455 (2008)
  • The Problem with "self" Competition,Univ. Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2004)

Education
  • Missouri State University, BA, Philosophy
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, MA, Philosophy
  • Marquette University, JD

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