On the Nebraska Wesleyan University faculty since 1973, Ms. Henderson teaches theory, counterpoint, form & analysis, composition, string methods, piano, 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. Ms. Henderson is currently a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in composition, studying with Dr. Randall Snyder. She has attended master classes with Lukas Foss and Libby Larsen.

The Wesleyan University Choir debuted Ms. 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.

Ms. Henderson plays viol in a Lincoln early music group. She occasionally plays viola with the Lincoln Orchestra and various string quartets.

Ms. 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.