Marla graduated with honors and received her Master of Science in Nursing from the Vanderbilt School of Nursing in 1991. She worked as a Family Nurse Practitioner at the White County Health Department before joining the Cumberland Family Care team in 2002. Marla has extensive experience in Family Medicine and regularly mentors student nurse practitioners through clinical rotations at Cumberland Family Care. She is active with both the local and state American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and the Sigma Theta Tau, an international nursing honor society. Marla is a native of Sparta and was very active in Future Farmers of America while in school. She still keeps her farming roots just west of Sparta. She is very active in the Hampton's Crossroad Baptist Church and with her family. She is married to husband, Steve and has one son, Eli Price.
