She anchored the news at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. on WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. Gentzler was raised in the Dominion Hills neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia.

[2] Her mother, Rita O'Flinn, worked as a secretary for the federal government while her father, Ferris Gentzler, was an executive with an insurance company.

Gentzler is a 1979 graduate of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia.

She was the on-air spokesperson for the station's successful NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo, held each January at the Washington Convention Center.

Gentzler is married to Bill Miller, a former reporter and editor at The Washington Post, who specialized in law enforcement coverage.