Judge Elkin’s legal career commenced at Minter Ellison Rudd Watts in 2003.  She left there and moved in-house in 2011 to take up a role as Chief Legal Advisor and then Associate Commissioner at the office of the Health and Disability Commissioner.  She then joined Ara Poutama Aotearoa (the Department of Corrections) in 2016 as Chief Legal Advisor and then as Acting Deputy Chief Executive, Corporate Services.  In 2019, Judge Elkin joined the Crown Law Office as Deputy Chief Executive, System Leadership, and then as a Deputy Solicitor-General.  She was appointed to the District Court bench in May 2023, with a criminal jury warrant and civil designation.  She currently sits in Otautahi / Christchurch.

Judge Elkin has qualifications in law, neuroscience and public health, including a PhD from the University of Melbourne.  She was the President of ILANZ from 2015 to 2017.