Jeannice attended Lynchburg College in Virginia, where she received her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and life sciences and Howard University in Washington, DC, where she received her master’s degree in genetic counseling. She is board certified in genetic counseling through the American Board of Genetic Counseling.

Jeannice moved to North Carolina in 1996 to work at East Carolina University School of Medicine as a pediatric and prenatal genetic counselor. She relocated to Wilmington in 1998 to work with Dr. Lydia Wright as a prenatal genetic counselor.