Prior to coming to UGA in January of 1988, Dr. Bennett-Alexander taught Business and Employment Law for five and one-half years at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. Before teaching, she worked in legal capacities in Washington, DC at the Federal Labor Relations Authority litigating federal sector labor law cases; the White House Domestic Council, serving as assistant to the Associate Director and General Counsel of the Council; the D.C. Court of Appeals, the highest court in DC, as law clerk to the Honorable Julia Cooper Mack; and at the Federal Trade Commission's Antitrust Division, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Antioch School of Law. Bennett-Alexander served as a special master (labor arbitrator) for the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission from 1985-1991.

Dr. Bennett-Alexander publishes extensively in the Employment Law area with particular emphasis on gender and race issues. Her articles have appeared in sources such as the American Business Law Journal, The Labor Law Journal, The Women's Rights Law Reporter, Wisconsin Women's Law Review, The Personnel Administrator, and other journals. In July 1994 she published for Irwin Publishing Co. a first-of-its-kind Employment Law textbook, Employment Law for Business, now in its sixth edition. Her legal environment textbook, The Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Environment of Business was published in 1995 by South-Western Publishing Company.  She is currently working under contract with McGraw-Hill Publishing to publish a Business Law text, magazine format Business Law text, and a Legal Environment text, due to come out in January of 2011, 2012, and 2013.

Dr. Bennett-Alexander has conducted diversity and Employment Law seminars for the public and private sector since 1985, has been featured in radio programs across the country, and quoted in the national media including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fortune Magazine, Georgia Trend, The Houston Chronicle, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution and many other newspapers. After conducting numerous seminars and presentations on multiculturalism and gender issues, she co-founded BJD Consulting in early 1993, specializing in awareness, sensitivity and training in issues of diversity, particularly race, gender, sexual harassment and affinity orientation. In late 1998, Dr. Bennett-Alexander formed Practical Diversity consulting firm, to specialize in taking diversity from theory to practice in the workplace.  Aside from having the best selling Employment Law textbook in the country, Dr. Bennett-Alexander considers one of the highlights of her work being asked by Grolier Encyclopedia to write its first-ever sexual harassment entry for the 1998 Encyclopedia Yearbook and being asked by McGraw-Hill Publishers to write the first-ever Legal Environment text fully infused with diversity.

Dr. Bennett-Alexander is the mother of three daughters and one granddaughter, to whom, along with her ancestors, much of her work is dedicated.