On the Nebraska Wesleyan University faculty since 1973, Dr. Henderson teaches theory, counterpoint, form & analysis, composition, string methods, strings, and the Recorder Ensemble. She has received a BA from Nebraska Wesleyan University, MA in theory from Eastman School of Music, and MM in composition and viola performance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Henderson completed her DMA in composition in May 2003 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir debuted Dr. Henderson's arrangement of The Ash Grove on their 1997 winter tour. A clip of their recording of The Ash Grove can be heard with your RealAudio plugin. The choir performed her song cycle, Bluestem and Sumac with poetry by Twyla Hansen on their 1999 tour of the Southwest. In the fall of 2007, the choir performed her anthem "Treasure Up My Commandments" for the inauguration of President Fred Ohles. And in September, Dr. Henderson's String Quartet No. 2 was given a world premiere by the Chiara String Quartet during the Visions and Ventures symposium.

Dr. Henderson plays viol and recorder in Lincoln early music groups. She occasionally plays viola with the Lincoln Orchestra and various string quartets.

Dr. Henderson received the Ida M Vreeland composition Award in 1994, a Regents Tuition Fellowship and the Frank and Marie T Wheeler Fellowship from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the 1995-96 academic year, and the 1995 Lillian Harlan Ramage composition award from Mu Phi Epsilon. In July 2000, her Ricercar for 4 viols was chosen for performance by the New York consort of Viols for the Traynor Competition at the VdGSA Conclave in Portland OR.