She has experience in the relevant areas.

It is quite common for experience in X itself to be quite different from the experience that is useful in dealing with X in some different context.

Most oncologists have no experience with actually having cancer themselves.

A majority of aircraft mechanics are not pilots.

Only a small percentage of referees in most major professional sports leagues have every played that sport professionally themselves.

Most patent lawyers are not inventors.

Depends on if you're referring to experience defrauding the American public, or protecting the American public. That can have different answers depending on what which side of the transaction you sit.

What does experience mean? Does only private-sector experience "count?" Should we remove Alito from the bench on those grounds?