Ms. Endres is senior regulatory associate in the Law and Regulation Program at the Energy Biosciences Institute in Illinois. A cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois School of Law, she developed her interest in agriculture and biofuels as a result of her years growing up in a small farming community in rural South Dakota. She earned her B.A. in Political Science from the University of South Dakota.
 
After graduation, she spent three years in Germany, where she earned her Master’s Degree in Administrative Management from the University of Maryland and became fluent in German.  Upon returning to the U.S., she was selected as a Graduate Scholar for the N.Y. State Assembly’s Committee on Environmental Conservation.   
 
Upon graduation from law school in 2000, Ms. Endres worked in a large Washington, D.C. litigation firm and clerked in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria.  She subsequently accepted a three-year clerkship in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. She is a published author in the nation’s top environmental law journals.