Julie LeBlanc has over 15 years of experience as an occupational therapist. She received her post-professional master's degree in occupational therapy from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2013 with a specialty certificate in low vision rehabilitation from 2011. From 2010 to 2015, she worked as an occupational therapist for Saad's Home Health Care and Hospice where she specialized in low vision rehabilitation. Prior to that, she worked as an occupational therapist from 2004 to 2009 at Memorial Hospital at Gulfport and from 2000 to 2004 for the State of Mississippi at the South Mississippi Regional Center.