Jennifer graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in Geology and a Technical Certificate in Geographic Information Systems from Roane State Community College. She has worked in various horticulture positions for 15 years in Tennessee and South Carolina including plant production, retail sales, urban horticulture, and as a garden consultant designing and maintaining private gardens. She is a Horticulturist and Collections Manager at UT managing the production and maintenance of the living plant collections and responsible for resarch trial production, plant labeling, garden mapping, and maintaining plant databases.