Ms. Pelzer is a Deputy General Counsel concentrating on business and transactional legal services. Ms. Pelzer received her undergraduate B.S.N. degree cum laude from Coe College and her J.D. degree with high distinction from the University of Iowa College of Law, where she was awarded Order of the Coif and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Corporation Law.  Ms. Pelzer taught a higher education seminar as an adjunct lecturer in the University of Iowa College of Law for 20 years and has served on the review panel of the American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing since 1995.