Mary attended Hendrix College and graduated from the University of Tulsa as an Honor Graduate with a B.A. in History.

She then attended the University of Tulsa Law School and obtained her Juris Doctorate in 1987.

Mary began her legal career working the insurance defense firm of Joseph Paulk & Associates, in Tulsa. Mary moved to Arkansas in 1989 to join the Slinkard Law Firm and practiced there until 1996, when she became a partner in the firm of Cochran, Schneider & Croxton, P.A. She joined Keith, Miller, Butler, Schneider & Pawlik in November 2001. Her main areas of practice are domestic relations, family law, litigation, mediation and ad litem.  She is a board member of the Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Benton Co. and former member of the Benton County Sunshine School.  Her family law mediation practice is an important part of her practice and she has given many speeches on family law and mediation.  You can view that website at www.familymediationsofrogers.com.