[3] Nancy Adams Collins graduated from Tupelo High School and holds a BS degree in Speech Therapy from Mississippi University for Women and in Nursing from Itawamba Community College.
Nancy Adams Collins is the founding president of Sanctuary Hospice house, which was named by Congress as a National Demonstration Project.
She is a member of the Agriculture, Appropriations, Forestry, Public Health and Welfare, and Veterans and Military Affairs committees.
Prior to her election to Mississippi State Senate, Nancy Collins served as chairman of North Mississippi Interact and is a past board member of SAV-A-Life, the Boys and Girls Club, the Tupelo Christian Women's Club, Habitat for Humanity, and the Family Resource Center.
In 2015, Nancy Collins ran an unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in Mississippi's First Congressional District in a special election following the death of Congressman Alan Nunnelee who died in February 2015.