D'Ann Fimple has been teaching for 28 years. She is a graduate of Benton High School and got her teaching degree from Henderson State University. She began her teaching career in Bauxite, Arkansas, teaching fifth grade. She then began teaching Kindergarten in El Dorado, Arkansas. She continued teaching Kindergarten in Fort Smith Public Schools and Farmington Public Schools before moving to Conway and teaching Pre-Kindergarten for the last three years at Sallie Cone Preschool in the Conway Public School District.