Lynnette received her J.D., with distinction, from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law in 2002. During law school, Lynnette served as Managing Editor of the UMKC Law Review and co-authored the Fall 2000 Freilich Report for The Urban Lawyer. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. Several years prior to law school, Lynnette was a Cryptologic Linguistic Specialist in the United States Air Force. She was the Honor Graduate of the Russian Language Studies program at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California before being stationed in Crete, Greece. Lynnette won numerous awards during her military service, including Airman of the Year for Iraklion Air Station, and Airman of the Quarter for the 6931^st European Electronic Security Division. She now practices primarily in wage and hour litigation representing employees in unpaid overtime and minimum wage cases. Lynnette also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Chief Judge Fernando J. Gaitan of the Western District of Missouri. Prior to joining the firm, Lynnette was an associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, L.L.P. in Kansas City, Missouri, practicing in such diverse areas as general litigation, products liability, NASD broker-dealer regulation, and securities regulation.