After earning her Bachelor's of Art degree from Texas Southern University, Ms. Hughes began her career as an educator in August of 1977 in Houston Independent School District at Hartman Junior High School as a Mathematics teacher as a favor to a friend. Little did she know that that favor would become a career that would last twenty years. Within those twenty years, Ms. Hughes was a mathematics teacher, a certified teacher technologist, department chairperson, and a program coordinator. She also served the student body as well as the district in several other capacities; Staff Sponsor of the Christian Student Union, Staff Sponsor of the Ladies of Distinction, Advisory Board Member - State Chapter of Texas Society CPAs Helping Schools Program, Member of Superintendent's Ad Hoc Teachers Advisory Committee, Member of Superintendent's Ombudsman Committee, Chairperson of Shared Decision-Making Committee, Schools of Excellence Facilitator, Impact II Educators' Network Developer & Facilitator, and the campus trainer for Curriculum Alignment, Conflict Resolution, and Gang Education Awareness & Resistance.

Ms. Hughes has been active in her community as well. She has been a foster parent to over fifty children as well as a co-trainer of Foster parents, Adoptive parents and Social Workers for the Harris County Children's Protective Services.

She accepted Jesus as her Savior at an early age. After receiving the Holy Spirit in 1978 she continued to grow in the Lord. While sharing her faith with others, often times she would be invited to speak at their church functions. It was at one of those functions that the Pastor of the church announced to the congregation that the Lord had spoken to him instructing him to ordain Minister Hughes that morning. Out of respect for the pastor, Ms. Hughes cooperated with the ordination service that sat her aside for the work of the ministry as an Evangelist, Teacher, and Missionary. The next day she questioned the meaning of what had happened. Since the Lord had already shown her in a vision that she was called to the ministry, the answer that the Pastor gave her sufficed.

Eventually Ms. Hughes became a 700 Club Counselor, a Prayer Counselor at Lakewood Church, an Instructor in the New Light Christian Center Church's Institute of Ministry's Light Bible Institute and the Assistant Dean of the Institute.

Prior to accepting an assignment at the Burnett Bayland Home for adjudicated boys, Ms. Hughes receivied her Masters degree in Education Administration. While fulfilling that assignment, after twenty years of service in public education, Mrs. Hughes received an invitation for employment at the New Light Christian Center Church in 1997, which she accepted. Her most rewarding position was that of servant to the students in Light Bible Institute and Ministry Development Institute in the position of Dean of the Light Christian Institute of Ministry. She also served many other churches as Dean of the Light Christian Institute of Ministry's Ministry Development Institute Extension Centers.

During her tenure as dean, one of her responsibilities was to take transcripts from tapes of her pastor's teachings and turn them into books. After successfully writing several books for her pastor, she authored five small books of her own: After This Manner Therefore Pray Ye, SRX: Spiritual Prescriptions for Health and Healing, The Bible Reading Plan: How to Get into the Word, Help Lord; I am single, married, divorced and Basic Combat Training in Spiritual Warfare - the series.

While working at New Light Church, Ms. Hughes was led to enroll in a school for deliverance ministers. After completion of the School of Deliverance Ministry and three internships, God told her to begin ministry as an Evangelist, a position to which she was ordained in 1990. As of March 1, 2005, Ms. Hughes is fulfilling that call on her life.