A 2004 graduate with high distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law, Amy served as a Note and Comment Editor for the Journal of Gender, Race and Justice, where she published a note entitled "Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Iowa's Policy of Name-Based HIV Reporting." In law school, Amy was a member of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, the Organization of Women Law Students and Staff, and the American Constitutional Society. During the summer of 2003, she interned at the United States Attorney's Office in Minneapolis. Amy earned a Bachelor of Arts, with distinction and honors, in Political Science from the University of Iowa in 1999.

Amy joined the firm in 2004. Her practice focuses on litigation and real estate. Amy is admitted to practice in the Minnesota state and federal courts, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. In 2007 and 2008, Amy was named a "Rising Star" by Minnesota Law & Politics.