Beth graduated from University of Iowa in 2002 with a B.A. in Political Science (honors, with highest distinction), where she was the commencement speaker for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She went on to the University of Iowa College of Law, where she received a J.D. in 2005 (with high distinction, Order of the Coif). While at the University of Iowa College of Law, she won the Best Brief Award in the Van Oosterhout moot court competition, and served as a member of the school’s moot court board and an editor of the Journal of Corporation Law.  

Beth clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit between 2005 and 2007. She began at Sidley Austin following her clerkship and has practiced there ever since. She is a nationally recognized lawyer with nearly two decades of experience handling mass tort, toxic tort, products liability, class actions, and other complex disputes. Beth has successfully defended class actions and mass tort cases on behalf of Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries, including industrial services, medical device and device sterilization, pharmaceutical, electronics, financial services, transportation, telecommunications, cosmetics, food, and nutritional supplements. She has served as national coordinating counsel in a variety of putative nationwide class actions and mass tort lawsuits filed in federal and state courts across the country.

Beth has received numerous accolades in response to the high quality of her work. She also maintains an active pro bono practice, most recently securing compassionate release on behalf of inmates suffering from disease or illness from which they are not expected to recover pursuant to the First Step Act.