Professor Cleveland earned a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Brown University in 1987. She studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar from 1987 - 1989 then attended Yale Law School and was awarded her Juris Doctor in 1992.
Cleveland got a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown Uni in 1987. She studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from '87 - '89 then went to Yale and was awarded her Jurs Doctor in '92.