Attorney Linda Lemke graduated Cum Laude from the J. Reuben Clark School of Law at Brigham Young University in 1998. During law school, she was Editor-in-Chief of the Education and Law Journal. She also worked for the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel for the Utah Legislature, where she performed research, wrote memoranda, advised legislators, and helped draft legislation. Upon graduation, she began working for the Criminal Appeals division of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office. She wrote hundreds of briefs to support felony criminal convictions and argued nearly 100 cases in the Missouri appellate courts, including 14 in the Supreme Court of Missouri. She also wrote Attorney General Opinions on a wide variety of subjects, second-chaired a death penalty trial, helped extradite criminals, and conducted CLE and appellate training for new attorneys. She has worked for PLS since February 2020.