Rebecca Scholtz joined St. Thomas law school in 2017 as a faculty fellow working in the school's Legal Services Clinic focusing on immigration. She is a senior staff attorney with the National Immigration Project.

Prior to joining the National Immigration Project, Scholtz worked with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network's Vulnerable Populations Program and with Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid's Immigration Law Project. Her work at MMLA focused on representation of unaccompanied children, and she also provided training, technical assistance, pro bono program development and advocacy on children's immigration issues. She has served as an adjunct associate professor at the University of Minnesota Law School's Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic (2015-2017).

Scholtz received her J.D. from Yale Law School and was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Diana Murphy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Prior to law school, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica.