She worked as an emergency room nurse at War Memorial Hospital before continuing her education at the University of Delaware to obtain an MSN/NP. This named scholarship is to honor her extraordinary accomplishments and to recognize the generosity of the scholarship donors who provided her financial assistance. Davidson was recipient of the May Mitchell Royal Foundation Nursing Scholarship in her junior year at LSSU and the Jeanne K. Buxbaum Graduate Nursing Student Assistantship at the University of Delaware. Successful candidates of the Lisa Davidson and Sherry Brooks Nursing & Accounting Scholarship must be of junior status and earned at least 56 LSSU credits with a minimum GPA of 3.0 majoring in the LSSU nursing or accounting program. Financial need may be a consideration.