Active professionally, Dr. Ledgerwood is Past President of the Southern Management Association and a past President of the Southwest Academy of Management. She has four degrees from the University of Oklahoma (Ph.D., MBA, M.S., and B.A.) and has published in the Labor Law Journal, the Monthly Labor Review, HR Magazine, the Journal of Business Ethics and the Journal of European Management. Dr. Ledgerwood also has authored all sections involving Health, Safety & Environmental Risk Management for the Blackwell Dictionary of Human Resource Management, the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management and published a case in Cases and Exercises in Human Resources Management.