Practice

Education

Joy graduated from Northern Arizona University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Sciences with an Emphasis in Public Policy and Administration.  She obtained her Juris Doctorate with Distinction from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 2007.  Prior to joining Jones & Swartz in 2008, Joy worked as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Michael J. Kraker in Minnesota’s 9th Judicial District. 

Joy became a member of the North Dakota Law Review in 2006 and served as an Associate Editor from 2006-2007.  Her article regarding statutory protection for emotional abuse in circumstances of domestic violence was published in the Journal in 2005.  Joy practiced before the state and federal courts of North Dakota as a certified student attorney in the School of Law’s Housing and Employment Litigation Clinic from 2006 – 2007.  While participating in the Litigation Clinic, she singly developed, oversaw the execution of, and authored the Executive Report on the North Dakota Civil Legal Needs Assessment; a survey of indigent and under-represented North Dakotans, endorsed by the State Bar Association of North Dakota, North Dakota Legal Services, and the School of Law. 

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