Annie Mentkowski

Annie Mentkowsk is the Agency Librarian at the United States Railroad Retirement Board, an agency that oversees retirement, healthcare, and survivorship benefits for American railroad workers. Annie’s accomplishments go well beyond her work at the agency, however. She is one of the minds behind “Review-It”, a new legal tech tool that won the 2021 AALL Innovation Showcase Awards in three categories (government, law firm, and law school). The tool, which she co-created with Lindsey Carpino of BakerHostetler (also a Fastcase 50 2022 winner), serves as a “Yelp!” for law librarians – a crowdsourced review system that shares feedback on legal resources with the law library community in an anonymized way. Annie’s work is a great example of innovation being a rising tide that lifts all boats; Review-It is set to improve law libraries worldwide by encouraging the dissemination of critical feedback for the way legal data is organized and made available to legal professionals everywhere.