Introduction
Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Elizabeth R. Schiltz graduated magna cum laude from Yale University and received her juris doctor from Columbia Law School, where she served on the Columbia Law Review. After law school, she spent a year in Germany as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow. Schiltz was in private practice for nine years with law firms in Washington, D.C. (Morrison & Foerster) and Minneapolis (Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly and Faegre & Benson), focusing on banking regulation, general corporate law and international law. Most recently, she practiced banking law at Faegre & Benson, Minnesota 's second largest law firm, where, among many other things, she assisted Dayton Hudson Corporation, Fingerhut Companies, Carson Pirie Scott, and other major retailers in obtaining charters for their credit card banks.
Schiltz was a member of the faculty of Notre Dame University Law School from 1996 through 2000. She was a member of the founding faculty of the University of St. Thomas Law School, which opened in fall of 2001. She teaches classes in contracts, sales, consumer law, and disability law. Her research interests include disability rights, consumer law, and feminist legal theory. Schiltz has received numerous awards at the School of Law including the Dean's Award for Outstanding Scholarship (2007), Mission Awards for Scholarly Engagement and Societal Reform (2012, 2017), and Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching (2019). She was also elected Professor of the Year by the graduating class of 2007 and recognized with the University Advocates for Women and Equity's Good Sister Award (2014).
Schiltz serves on the boards of directors of the National Catholic Partnership on Disability and L'Arche USA. She is also a contributor to the Catholic legal theory blog Mirror of Justice. Schiltz is a 1998 graduate of the Partners in Policymaking Academy, a nationwide, state-based training program in disability advocacy.