Since serving as a law clerk for Judge Alan N. Bloch of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Hartman has been a visiting scholar at Georgetown University; a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Law; a visiting professor at Duquesne University School of Law; a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine; and a research associate professor in the Department of General Medicine and interim associate director of the Consortium Ethics Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Hartman received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.