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Ms. Reardon earned her J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1983 and her B.S. from the University of Notre Dame in 1979, and has completed arbitration and mediation trainings through the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation. She is admitted to practice in Illinois, before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and before the United States Supreme Court. She serves on the national rosters of the American Arbitration Association for Commercial and Consumer Arbitration and is a certified neutral in the Early Dispute Resolution Process.

Ms. Reardon has been recognized nationally for her contributions to professional responsibility, including appointment to chair the ABA's Standing Committee on Professionalism for three consecutive years and receipt of the Center for Professional Responsibility's highest lifetime honor, the Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award. She previously served as Executive Director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, an organization dedicated to promoting ethics and professionalism among lawyers and judges.

Ms. Reardon is active across the organized bar. Her memberships include the American Bar Association — where she has served on the Center for Professional Responsibility's Standing Committee on Professionalism (former Chair), the Working Group on Reforms to Advertising Rules, and the Law Practice Division's Ethics & Professional Responsibility Committee — the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, the Illinois State Bar Association (Section on Alternative Dispute Resolution), the Chicago Bar Association (Professional Responsibility Committee), and the Women's Bar Association of Illinois, as well as past service on the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being. A sought-after educator, she has delivered hundreds of CLE and educational programs on ethics and professional responsibility to law firms, law students, judges, and bar associations across Illinois and nationally, on topics ranging from conflicts of interest and succession planning to the ethics of artificial intelligence, legal technology, and regulatory reform. She is also a widely published author whose work has appeared in the ABA Journal, Law Practice Today, the St. Mary's Law Journal, the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, and ABA book chapters on professionalism and civility.

Ms. Reardon's career spans private practice, regulatory enforcement, and institutional leadership. An experienced trial lawyer, she has tried cases in state and federal courts across Illinois and on appeal up to the United States Supreme Court. Her background includes service as disciplinary counsel for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission and prior practice at Kelley Drye & Warren and Locke Lord (formerly Wilman Harrold Allen & Dixon). At FisherBroyles, her practice spans arbitration and mediation, commercial litigation, legal ethics and professional responsibility, litigation and risk management, professional and management liability, and cyber-risk, privacy, and data security.