Instructor Streitz graduated Order of the Coif in 2001 from the University of Iowa College of Law, where he was elected 1L Class Representative to the Iowa Student Bar Association. He earned an MA in philosophy from the University of Iowa, and received his BA in political science from the University of Minnesota, where he graduated with honors.

Instructor Streitz began his legal career as a litigation associate, first at Faegre & Benson LLP, and later at Siegel Brill PA in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Before coming to Hamline, Streitz was an acquisitions editor at West Academic Publishing, where he worked with law professors, soliciting and developing proposals for law school casebooks, textbooks, and study aids. He also taught appellate advocacy as an adjunct at the University of St. Thomas School of Law.