Janie Nitze most recently served as a law clerk to Justice Neil M. Gorsuch of the United States Supreme Court. Prior to her clerkship, she was a fellow at Harvard Law School, where her areas of scholarly interest focused on separation of powers and national security. She formerly also served as an attorney with the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice.

Janie received her B.A. in physics and M.A. in statistics from Harvard University, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served on the Harvard Law Review. After law school, she clerked for then-Judge Gorsuch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and for Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Supreme Court.