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Kris has loved the law since the day of her birth. In fact, her maiden name is Laws. She was born and raised in Boise, Idaho. Kris earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Brigham Young University with a minor in Elementary Education. She took a seventeen-year sabbatical to raise five children and contribute to the community in numerous ways. She served as a crisis pregnancy counselor, an unwed mother companion and coordinator, a volunteer teacher at a state mental hospital, a Boy Scouts of America leader, chairman of a political action committee, and she has served on the board of several local and national political organizations. She has lobbied everywhere from the school board to the United Nations and every point in between. It was in that political involvement that her love and desire to learn even more about the law deepened.

With four teen-aged children and an eleven-year old, Kris enrolled in law school at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. After her first year of law school, she served a summer externship with a federal magistrate judge. As the second year commenced, she was accepted on the Nevada Law Journal. She then served as an extern and trial assistant in the United States Attorney’s Office. In her final year of school, Kris served as Nevada Law Editor in the Nevada Law Journal. After graduation Kris served as a law clerk for a district court judge. Kris proudly joined Christensen Law Offices in the summer of 2005.

On a personal note Kris enjoys hiking the high mountain lakes of Idaho, traveling anywhere and everywhere around the world, sports, cooking, politics and gardening. She is active in her church and loves working with the Young Women. Her favorite things in life are her family, her faith and good chocolate. Her philosophy in life is you were born to bless the lives of others.