She was the judicial law clerk for the Honorable Susan Pierson Sonderby, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, from 1988 to 1992. She received her J.D. from the John Marshall Law School in 1988, and she graduated summa cum laude from the University of Wisconsin-White Water. Jane E. Penley is an attorney with the law firm of Anderson & Associates, P.C. She is a member of the DuPage County Bar Associates and the DuPage Association of Women Lawyers. She received her Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law in May 2012 and received her Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Spanish from Indiana University-Bloomington in 2006.