Ms. Simmers has been Family Court Coordinator for Florida's Tenth Judicial Circuit for four years. During the fourteen years prior to her accepting the family court coordinator position, she served as manager of the court's Domestic Violence Program and was instrumental in implementing the first court based domestic violence advocacy program in Florida, which led to her appointment in 2000 to the Governor's Task Force on Domestic and Sexual Violence.

Ms. Simmers is co-founder of Lakeland based Drug Prevention Resource Center, a non-profit organization that offers drug prevention resource and referral information to citizens and schools in the Polk County area. She has been president of Pride of Lakeland, Drug Dependency Network, and Santa Fe High School Parent Teacher Organization. Ms. Simmers resides in Lakeland with her husband Terry.