Minteer earned a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Iowa in 2000 and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Western Illinois University in 1995. The author of more than 450 journal articles who has presented at conferences around the world, Minteer began her teaching and research career in 2000 as an assistant professor of chemistry at Saint Louis University, where she also had an appointment in biomedical engineering. In 2011 she joined the University of Utah as a Utah Science Technology and Research Initiative (USTAR) Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering leading the USTAR Alternative Energy Cluster. In 2020 she was named director of the NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry at the University of Utah; she became a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah in 2022.

Minteer has been a leader in many professional associations, including vice president of the International Society of Electrochemistry, an elected board of directors member of the Electrochemical Society, and editor-in-chief of the American Chemical Society Au journals. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the International Society of Electrochemistry. In 2021 she was named to The Analytical Scientist Power List of Top 100 Most Influential People in Analytical Science. She is a recipient of many awards and honors, including the Utah Innovation Award for Early Stage Innovation in the Mechanical, Chemical, and Manufacturing Category, the Charles N. Reilley Award of the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry, the Grahame Award of the Electrochemical Society, the Bruno Breyer Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the Bioelectrochemistry Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry, the University of Utah Distinguished Research Award, Missouri Inventor of the Year Award, and the University of Utah Perry Teaching Award.