She is a tenured professor at the University of Tennessee, College of Law where she has been teaching since 2008. Prior to teaching at the University of Tennessee, she was a clinical teaching fellow at Villanova University School of Law and a law clerk for the Honorable Damon J. Keith with the U.S. Federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. From 2003 to 2005, she was an associate with Miller, Canfield, Paddock, and Stone P.L.C. in their Labor and Employment practice group.