Trivia

After graduating from Pepperdine Law School in Malibu, California in 1988, she became a criminal prosecutor for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. She left the DA's Office in 2006 after 18 years.

She is the third of seven adopted children of the late Robert Holman Coombs, a Professor of Psychiatry and Bio-behavioral Sciences at UCLA and Carol Jean Coombs née Cook. Her siblings are Robert Scott, Kathryn, Karen, Holly Ann, Krista, and David Jeremy.

She graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah at 19 years old in 1984 and was the youngest woman to graduate from BYU with a psychology major and music minor.