Lee Scroggins was born on April 10, 1948. She and her family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in March 1980. She worked as an administrative aide, management assistant, and executive assistant in several departments at UNLV starting in 1980. She did not work on campus from 1985 to 1988, then she returned to UNLV to work in the psychology department and eventually in the library until she retired in 2009.