Dr. Menne was born and raised in rural Wisconsin. She obtained her undergraduate degree and M.D. from the University of Wisconsin. She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at Denver Health. She then traveled to Baltimore where she completed a Trauma/Surgical Critical Care fellowship at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. She is now faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and splits her time between the Emergency Department at the University of Maryland Medical Center, the ICUs at Meritus Medical Center and R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.