Rachel Kitze Collins, Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP

Rachel Kitze Collins is a partner at Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP in Minneapolis, where she practices in the firm’s environmental, business and political law groups and co-leads its employment law team. She has represented public entities, businesses and plaintiffs in complex, high-profile litigation involving constitutional, contract, political and environmental law in both federal and state court.

In her employment practice, Kitze Collins primarily represents governmental and business clients in litigation and administrative proceedings before Minnesota agencies. She has handled matters involving employment discrimination, harassment, unfair labor practices, and wage and hour disputes. She also negotiates collective bargaining agreements for nonprofit employers and conducts workplace investigations for public and private organizations.

Kitze Collins has been active in leadership roles within the legal community. She serves as a board member and former co-president of the Minneapolis–St. Paul Chapter of the American Constitution Society, and as a current council member and past chair of the Minnesota State Bar Association’s environmental, natural resources and energy law section.

She also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she coaches the Environmental Moot Court Competition Team. Under her guidance, the team won the 2024 Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition at Pace University, prevailing over 54 teams nationwide.

Kitze Collins graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2014, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif, note and comment editor for the Minnesota Law Review and a clinic director. She earned her undergraduate degree summa cum laude from St. Olaf College in 2011.

Following law school, she clerked for Judge James B. Loken of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit before joining Lockridge Grindal Nauen.