She is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, where she served as Senior Managing Editor of the Georgia Law Review. After law school, Emily worked as a judicial staff attorney for five years before helping establish the Cobb County DUI Court program, a successful accountability court for repeat DUI offenders. She ran the program full-time for several years before turning to prosecution. As an Assistant Solicitor General in Cobb County, Emily prosecuted misdemeanor offenses and successfully argued before the Georgia Supreme Court in State v. Frost, 297 Ga. 296 (2015).