Kristen Gartman Rogers received her undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, in Political Science from the University of South Alabama in 1995. She received her law degree, magna cum laude, in 1999 from the University of Georgia School of Law, where she was Managing Editor of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law and earned membership in the Order of the Coif. She was admitted to the Alabama bar in September 1999 and is an Assistant Federal Defender for the Appellate Division of the Southern District of Alabama Federal Defenders Organization, Inc., where she has been employed since October 1999. Her notable published cases include United States v. Fisher, 289 F.3d 1329 (11th Cir. 2002) and United States v. Odom, 252 F.3d 1289 (11th Cir. 2001). From December 2002 through May 2003, Kristen represented the federal defender community by serving as Special Counsel and Visiting Federal Defender at the United States Sentencing Commission in Washington, D.C. In May 2003, she was a panelist/speaker at the Twelfth Annual National Seminar on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, a conference co-sponsored by the Sentencing Commission and the Federal Bar Association. Kristen is licensed to practice in the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, and the State of Alabama.