Jennifer Phillips Mabe received a bachelor's degree with a double major in Criminology and Sociology in 1996, and a Master of Public Administration in 2003, both from the University of South Florida. She was an active member of the American Criminal Justice Association, an officer of Alpha Phi Sigma and the Criminology Alumni Society, and remained very involved with the Criminology department for many years, assisting Lisa Landis as Event Co-Coordinator of the Criminology Career Expos. From 1997-2007, Mrs. Mabe was a Certified Welfare Fraud Investigator for both the State Auditor General and Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Public Assistance Fraud programs. During her service with FDLE, she became a FTO for junior investigators and a member of the Incident Management Group and Child Abduction Response Team.M

Since 2007, Mrs. Mabe has been an investigator, in Florida and in North Carolina for TriCenturion, Inc., a Medicare Program Safeguard Contractor established to perform program integrity functions to protect the Medicare Trust Fund from fraud, waste, and abuse. She is currently in the process of becoming a Certified Fraud Examiner. Along with her husband David, she is a member of Kiwanis of Kernersville, and her proudest accomplishment is her three-year-old son, Dawson.