Ms. England received her baccalaureate and law degrees from the University of Southern California. She was admitted to practice law in the State of California in 1962. After five years of private, general practice, Ms. England accepted a position with the State Compensation Insurance Fund, working as a trial attorney in Los Angeles and Orange counties. In May, 1970, Ms. England was appointed to the bench by the Workers Compensation Appeals Board, presiding in the Pomona and later the Santa Ana District Offices of the Board.

In 1975, Ms. England was admitted to practice law in the State of Washington, and joined a firm specializing in the representation of industrially injured workers. Thereafter, in June, 1977, Ms. England returned to the State of California and began a law firm in San Diego, specializing in the defense of workers compensation claims, representation of various public entities in disability retirement proceedings, and employers in certain issues where workers' compensation laws overlap with other areas of state and federal employment law. In the course of that practice, Ms. England became a California certified specialist in the field of workers' compensation.

Ms. England was again appointed to the bench in 2001, assuming the responsibilities of a Workers Compensation Administrative Law Judge for the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board in San Diego, where she presided over workers' compensation matters until March 31, 2007.

On April 1, 2007, Ms. England returned to private practice. She joined former law partner Barry Ponticello and attorney Renee St.Clair in the formation of England Ponticello & St.Clair, which firm is dedicated to the defense of employers and insurance companies in various administrative and civil employment related litigated matters.