Christyne Martens was born and raised in central Minnesota and earned her B.A. in Sociology, summa cum laude, from St. Cloud State University. She received her Juris Doctorate Degree, with honors, from the University of Wyoming College of Law and was selected into the Order of the Coif. She began her career as a prosecutor in Northwestern Iowa. She then joined the Criminal Division of the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office, where she briefed and argued direct criminal appeals before the Wyoming Supreme Court, litigated various forms of post-appellate challenges to criminal convictions in the state and federal courts, litigated civil asset forfeitures, advised criminal justice agency clients, and provided a variety of trainings to prosecutors and law enforcement officers. As Deputy Attorney General for the Criminal Division, she oversaw this work.

Mrs. Martens joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Wyoming as an Assistant United States Attorney based in Casper. As a federal prosecutor, she works with a variety of federal agencies to prosecute a variety of crimes, including drugs, human trafficking, white collar, child exploitation, crimes in Indian Country, and natural resource violations. She has served as the Covid Fraud Coordinator, Project Safe Childhood Coordinator, and Human Trafficking Coordinator for the district.

Of note, she presented at the Association of Paroling Authorities International’s annual training conference regarding changes to juvenile sentencing law. In the fall of 2014, she was the first member of the Wyoming Attorney General’s Office to serve as a National Association of Attorneys General Supreme Court Fellow in Washington D.C. She has also been invited to guest lecture at the University of Wyoming College of Law and chaired the Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions Committee for the Wyoming State Bar.