She worked as director of marketing and admissions at the now-defunct Merritt Davis Business College in Eugene, Oregon.
Ultimately, she received a master's degree in Public Administration, cum laude, from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1998.
[citation needed] Boggs has resided in the state of Texas since 2008 and is an honor graduate of St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio.
She received her Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in May 2012 and was honored by the Faculty Advocacy Committee as the recipient of the 2012 Judge Jack B. Miller Award.
She received a Pro Bono Certificate at her graduation for having donated more than 700 hours of free legal services to residents who could not afford lawyers in San Antonio and on the Texas-Mexico border.
She was appointed to the position by Governor Kenny Guinn to fill the seat for District F previously held by Mark James.
Boggs was investigated by the Nevada Ethics Commission in 2005 for a complaint alleging that she tried to use her political influence to save her husband's government job.
The charges, according to Boggs and numerous commentators, were "political payback" rooted in her vocal opposition to a 40% pay raise for police officers in Las Vegas and because of her former service on the Board of Directors of Station Casinos, a non-union hotel corporation.
Both unions were key endorsers of the 2006 re-election effort of Clark County District Attorney David Roger.
In 2009, she accepted an Alford plea to a single gross misdemeanor to resolve the case, maintaining her innocence throughout the ordeal.
As a resident of Texas, Boggs was elected unopposed as a precinct chair for the Bexar County Republican Party in 2016.
After withdrawing her candidacy for a 2018 judicial race, she was unanimously appointed and served as Legal Counsel for the local Republican party in San Antonio.
She was one of two recipients of the 2018 FUTURE LEGENDS IN THE LAW AWARD, presented at the annual gala of the San Antonio Black Lawyers Association.
[citation needed] Lynette Boggs is the 1991 recipient of the Katie Award for Excellence in News Feature Writing presented by the Press Club of Dallas.
She is the author of FINDING GOD IN SIN CITY: A Woman's Journey From Losing It All To Discovering Life's True Riches (HigherLife Publishing).