Sims Rogers has made her living in the antiques business since 1974. She has owned antiques shops in Philadelphia, Baltimore and on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and has done all types of restoration, from furniture to paintings. She has been a consultant, appraiser, lecturer and instructor.

Ms. Rogers is the founder, producer and manager of the highly acclaimed Mid Atlantic Antiques Market, a two-day antiques show in the Spring and Fall of each year catering to the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., community. She has also managed antiques shows as fund raisers for The United States Equestrian Team, the Ward Museum of Wildfowl and the Literacy League of Dorchester County.

Sims Rogers, a southerner by birth, earned her Bachelors degree in Fine Art from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.