[2] She graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1901,[3] and earned a bachelor's degree at the University of California In 1908.

"Neither the formal record of her titles nor the twenty-four years of service, however, reveal her intense devotion to the well-being of students, faculty, and alumni, and to the development of the law library," noted a colleague in the law review.

In 1934, she traveled to the annual meeting of the Special Libraries Association in New York, and to Montreal for the AALL meeting that year; then extended her travels to Europe, including a visit to Rome.

[15] In 1937, she was elected a life member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).

[7] Parma took temporary leave of the university in 1914, returning to Santa Barbara to recover from complications following an appendectomy.