Ms. Rossiter is a Cum Laude graduate from the University of South Dakota with a Bachelors of Science in Criminal Justice. She attended law school at a small private college in Southern California, the University of La Verne College of Law where she also graduated cum laude. Ms. Rossiter spent four years with the Kern County Public Defender’s office in Bakersfield, California. She then spent two and a half years suing law enforcement in civil rights suits in Southern California. In 2017 Ms. Rossiter returned to her home state of South Dakota to work with the Pennington County Public Defender’s office and serve and protect the rights of some of the most vulnerable member of the community she loves.