Preeta Bansal who moved from India to US saw many pit stops at a age of 3 years. At just a tender age of 33 years she became the Solicitor General of New York. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from Hardvard-Radcliffe College and from Harvard University. While studying in law school she was the Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review.

After completing her law degree she joined as a clerk for James L. Oakes, Cheif Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice John Paul Stevens on the United States Supreme Court in 1990-1991. She has practiced law with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in New York City and Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C.

She has the credit of serving in the Clinton Administration in 1994-1995 as counselor to Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein in the United States Department of Justice (Antitrust Division), and as Special Counsel in the Office of the White House Counsel, where she specialised in litigation and judicial nominations.

Bansal also served in the U.S. Department of Justice from 1993-1994 and from 1995-1996, first as Senior Counsel in the Office of Policy Development where she advised Attorney General Janet Reno on issues including television violence, violence against women, civil justice reform and access to justice.

Immediately prior to coming to Nebraska last fall, she was the Solicitor General of the State of New York by Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in 1999. The Solicitor General, who oversees a staff of 100 attorneys and support personnel, is responsible for appellate litigation in both state and federal courts.

She regularly gives lectures on intellectual property and constitutional law and has the credit of getting her writings published in national news and legal publications. She has published in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Villanova Law REview and other legal journals.