I grew up in Iron Mountain, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In 2011, I graduated Suma Cum Laude from Northern Michigan University and went on to attend Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School on an honors scholarship. I graduated with my Juris Doctor degree, Magna Cum Laude, in May 2014. 

After law school, I returned to the Upper Peninsula and took both the Michigan and Wisconsin Bar Exams. As an attorney I worked for several years of general practice representing clients throughout Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas, as well as the State of Wisconsin. I then obtained my license to practice in the State of North Carolina and worked for three years as an Assistant District Attorney for the State of North Carolina. I've since returned to my home town in the UP to Ryan & Lynch Law, representing clients throughout the Western UP and Northern Wisconsin.