In March 2016, she was appointed by the Minnesota Supreme Court to serve as the Director of the Lawyers Professional Responsibility, the judicial agency responsible for lawyer discipline in the State of Minnesota. Prior to consulting, Susan served as Vice-President and Assistant General Counsel for Alliant Techsystems, Inc. an aerospace and defense company, and its commercial product spin-off Vista Outdoor, and spent 13 years in private practice at Leonard, Street and Deinard, now known as Stinson Leonard Street, representing a wide range of product manufacturing companies.