Rogers was raised in East Melbourne, and attended a local Catholic school.
[1] After her husband died in 1910, Rogers initially worked as a cleaner, before being appointed secretary, then president, of the Women Office Cleaners' Union, and later vice-president of the Miscellaneous Workers' Union.
In 1925, she became a member of the council's finance and legislative committee, but was at the elections in August later that year.
[2] In 1928, she became one of first women to be appointed a justice of the peace in Victoria, serving as a special magistrate at the Children's Court at Richmond.
[2][4] Rogers died of cancer on 25 September 1932, and was buried at Boroondara Cemetery in Kew.