sentences:  Her father, Homer Smith, became a Church of Christ minister and the family moved every few years, from Pineville to Houma, Patterson, New Iberia, back to Pineville and then West Monroe.She graduated in 1964 from Neville High School in Monroe and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond in 1984.She procured a Master of Business Administration from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.