She is licensed by the states of Alabama and Mississippi to provide healthcare to patients of all ages. She is a 1994 graduate of the University of West Florida with a BS in Nursing and earned her MS in Nursing from Florida State University in 1997. Her extensive healthcare career has yielded a variety of nursing experience including military medicine, rural health, and family practice. She has been providing care to children and adults as a nurse practitioner for 19 years in both primary and acute care settings.