She has a Master's degree in Education and a Ph.D. from Georgia State University, as well as a Master of Divinity degree in theology and ethics from Emory University. She was an employee of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from 1980-1996. Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee served in the United States Navy Nurse Corps on active duty from 1962-1965 and on reserve duty from 1989-1991. She has a Master's degree in Nursing from Emory University, and was an employee of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Atlanta from 1981-2002. The two women have written four books together.