Mrs. Wingert was born and raised in Baltimore Maryland, attended Stratford Business School following High School and served as Executive Secretary to the Chancellor of the Professional Schools Campus of the University of Maryland for nine years. She married and moved to Honolulu, HA where her husband completed his Medical Internship at Tripler Army Medical Center and upon completion moved to Tacoma, Washington. Kay served as Administrative Assistant to the Dean of Faculty at the University of Puget Sound for the next Four Years, moved to Frankfurt, West Germany, where she worked as the Staff Secretary to the Infectious Diseases Medical Staff at Frankfurt Regional Army Medical Center for two years.

Upon completion of that assignment, Kay returned to the United States, where she helped establish her husband medical practice and for the next 16 years was the CFO and Administrative Director for the Cape Coral Ear, Nose and Throat Center, in Cape Coral.

Beginning in 2003, Kay joined the staff at Lutgert College of Business and has been support staff for the Management Department since that time. She has one son and currently lives in Fort Myers. She loves reading, writing, photography, being outdoors and has a creative side she enjoys sharing with her friends.