1946
Ms. Carroll is born in Greenville, South Carolina to Charles Kirby and Margaret Hammond.
1964
Ms. Carroll studies at Winthrop College in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
1968
Ms. Carroll receives a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Carolina and becomes a teacher at A.C. Flora High School in Columbia, South Carolina. She also marries Robert Lindsay Carroll Jr.
1970
Ms. Carroll becomes executive field director of the Northeast Georgia Girl Scouts in Athens, Georgia.
1972
Ms. Carroll writes Manual for AID and Volunteer, which executed five year goals for the Junior League of Greenville, South Carolina.
1973
Ms. Carroll gives birth to a daughter, Jane Gower Hammond Carroll.
1976
Ms. Carroll gives birth to a son, Robert Lindsay Carroll, III, who passed away in 2014.
1984
Ms. Carroll becomes an author and illustrator for book contracts at Winston-Derek Publishers in Nashville, Tennessee. She is also appointed chair of the Art Program of the National League of American Pen Women.
1987
Ms. Carroll authors and illustrates “Intimate Moments” published by Winston-Derek Publishers Inc.
1988
The first of several of Ms. Carroll’s pieces is included in the governor of Georgia’s permanent library.
1989
Ms. Carroll has a solo exhibition at Jenny Pruitt and Associates (now Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty). She also exhibits a one-person show at Tew Galleries in Atlanta, Georgia.
1989
Ms. Carroll authors “Dayspring.”
1990
For the next 19 years, Ms. Carroll studies portraiture with Nelson Shanks, Jim Schell, Marc Chaov, Nancy Honea, Daniel Green, and Thomason Bradford. She also studies landscape, drawing life figures, painting, and watercolor with Delores Kennedy in Atlanta, Georgia.
1993
Ms. Carroll serves as a volunteer artist with Arts in the Atlanta Project.
2010
Ms. Carroll becomes an author, artist, and poet for Lulu Press with Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Inc., where she authors “Orchard Synergy and Orchard Connection.”
2012
Ms. Carroll wins Best of Show at the Georgia State Association National League of American Pen Women.
2016
Three of Ms. Carroll’s portraits are accepted to the Portrait Society of Atlanta.
2018
Ms. Carroll becomes a juried member of The Portrait Society of Atlanta.