Meredith graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Law with a Criminal Law concentration after realizing just how disadvantaged the average person is when facing the collective power of the criminal court system. The stakes are simply too high to ever assume things will work out as they should.

Meredith worked for the Wisconsin State Public Defender for over ten years, representing people of all ages, backgrounds, and facing every kind of criminal charge. She has often (and sometimes gleefully) put those early Constitutional Law lessons to work litigating traffic stops, searches with or without a warrant, and the right of individuals to know what they are accused of and to have it be based on evidence. She’s also done extensive work with treatment courts throughout the state based on the belief that incarceration does serious societal damage and the court system should actively avoid it.