Bradley is a native of Lafayette, Louisiana. She moved to Portland, Oregon in 1996 to attend Reed College, where she received her B.A. Following college, Bradley worked on international conflict prevention policy issues in Brussels, Belgium. Bradley returned to Louisiana to study law, and received her J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 2005.

While at Loyola, Bradley participated in the Loyola Law Clinic, wherein she successfully acquitted a client charged with second degree murder. Since then, Bradley has continued to develop her legal skills through working at a criminal law firm in New Orleans, and then as an attorney at Loyola’s law clinic where she successfully developed a program that assists New Orleans area residents with their Hurricane Katrina related legal issues.

Bradley is admitted to practice law in the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Court for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Louisiana as well as all state courts in the State of Louisiana. She is a member of the Lafayette and Louisiana Bar Associations and the American Inn of Court.