Taylor received her law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School and spent eight years in private practice civil litigation involved primarily in medical malpractice, toxic tort, personal injury, and employment litigation. She is licensed to practice in North Carolina and South Carolina and admitted to practice before all North Carolina State and Federal Courts as well as the United States Supreme Court. Taylor was most recently with the law firms of McNair & Sanford and The Sanford Law Firm.