She graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a double major in Political Science and Criminology, Law, and Society and received her JD from Chapman University School of Law. During her law school career, she was selected as a judicial law clerk for Justice William F. Rylaarsdam in the California Court of Appeal, and acted as Senior Editor of Chapman University’s Nexus Journal of Law and Public Policy. Ms. Tran also was a member of the Whittier Law School’s Law Review and Moot Court Honors Board before transferring to Chapman University School of Law.