She graduated from East Orange High School and received a baccalaureate degree in psychology from Cornell University.
She had also been the president of the New Jersey Association of Black Women Lawyers and served on the East Orange Zoning Board of Adjustment.
[1] In 1987, the Essex County Democratic Party Organization selected Bush to have the Organization line in that year's General Assembly primary ballot alongside Harry A. McEnroe after dropping incumbent Mildred Barry Garvin.
On September 21, 1992, Governor James Florio named Bush to be the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.
[3] After leaving the Department of Community Affairs, Bush earned a PhD from Rutgers University in criminal justice.