Early Life and Education
Rice grew up in Garden City, and was one of 10 siblings in an Irish Catholic family. She graduated from The Catholic University of America in 1987 with a B.A. in English and graduated from Touro Law School in June 1991.
She began her career as an assistant district attorney the Brooklyn DA's Office, where she was eventually appointed to serve in the office's Homicide Bureau. Rice served as a federal prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice.
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