1996 High School Diploma, Grayslake, Illinois, USA 1999 High school diploma in Bamberg at the Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium Studied political science at the Hochschule für Politik in Munich and at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University in Berlin 2005 Diploma in Political Science at the Otto-Suhr-Institute of the Free University in Berlin Journalist at various radio stations, daily newspapers and agencies, district chairwoman of the water rescue service in Lower Franconia, former scholarship holder of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation e.V., member of numerous associations in the districts of Bad Kissingen, Rhön-Grabfeld and Haßberge Joined the Junge Union in 1992, joined the CSU in 1994, regional chairwoman of the RCDS in Bavaria 2001-2003, member of the CSU party executive committee since 2001, deputy regional chairwoman of the Junge Union Bavaria, deputy district chairwoman of the Junge Union Unterfranken, deputy district chairwoman of the Women's Union Member of the Bundestag since 2002

Joined on November 23, 2005 to replace Dr. Günther Beckstein, who resigned from the Bundestag