A nontraditional student, Luebbert graduated magna cum laude from the University of Idaho College of Law in 1998. After clerking for the Honorable Wayne Kidwell of the Idaho Supreme Court, she worked as a contract attorney for the Idaho State Appellate Public Defender, where she represented indigent defendants before the Idaho Supreme Court and Idaho Court of Appeals. Luebbert has also represented indigent clients before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and served as an extern clerk to the Honorable Thomas G. Nelson.

Luebbert received the Idaho State Bar's Denise O'Donnell-Day Pro Bono Award in 2001 for her work for the Idaho Volunteer Lawyers Program. She has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Advocate and an editor for the Idaho Bench Guide and Clerk's Manual, a project of the Idaho Supreme Court.

Before attending law school, Luebbert was a wildland firefighter, serving as a Fire Suppression Specialist for the Alaska Fire Service. She also fought fires for the U.S. Forest Service in California and the B.L.M. in Nevada and spent two years as a fire lookout in the Frank Church Wilderness of central Idaho.

Luebbert received an A.B. summa cum laude with Honors in history and religion from Dartmouth College in 1978. She trained in historic site administration at Colonial Williamsburg and in editing at the Institute of Early American History and Culture. Luebbert has worked as a museum curator and historical records surveyor and coauthored A Guide to Historical and Genealogical Records of Latah County, Idaho.

Luebbert enjoys beading, managing forest lands, picking huckleberries, and romping with her Chesapeake Bay retrievers.