A native of San Francisco, Froman grew up in a “gun-free” home, received her undergraduate degree in economics with honors from Stanford University and her juris doctor degree from Harvard Law School. She has been a partner at prominent law firms in California and Arizona, and was a full-time law professor at Santa Clara University Law School for two years. She serves on advisory boards of the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law in Tucson, Arizona and the George Mason University Law School in Fairfax, Virginia.