Currently Professor of Music at the University of Northern Iowa, Cobb spent a varying number of years as a conductor and composer at Mercer University, Oklahoma Baptist University, Dallas Baptist University, Florida Gulf Coast University and Indiana State University. She holds the D.M.A. in composition from the University of Oklahoma, the M.M. in composition from Michigan State University and the B.M. in theory and composition from Oklahoma Baptist University. Her principal teachers were Claude Bass, H. Owen Reed, Carlisle Floyd and Michael Hennagin.