Sanders is a 2003 Purdue University graduate and earned her law degree from Indiana University Law School-Indianapolis in 2007. She began practicing law in 2008 with Pearlman, Chosnek and Hopson, P.C., where she focused on family, criminal and municipal law. In 2009, Sanders took a part-time position with the public defender's office and opened a private law practice in Tippecanoe County. She expanded her private law practice to Pulaski County in 2010 where she practiced in the areas of criminal defense, family law, collections and estates. Sanders also worked as a Guardian Ad Litem when appointed by the court, representing the voice of children in cases where it was necessary to determine a child's best interest.

Sanders closed her private law practices and left the public defender's office in 2013 when she was appointed as Tippecanoe County juvenile magistrate after Justice Loretta Rush was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court and then-juvenile magistrate Faith Graham was appointed to fill Justice Rush's place in Tippecanoe County Superior Court 3. During her two years on the bench, Sanders conducted thousands of hearings involving paternity of children and Children in Need of Services, or CHINS, due to abuse, neglect, substance abuse, or other harmful situations. Sanders also handled custody, child support, termination of parental rights and juvenile delinquency.

When given the opportunity to return home to Pulaski County, Sanders welcomed the chance to serve the residents of Pulaski County and work to make the community a safer place for families and children. Sanders tendered her resignation as juvenile magistrate for Tippecanoe County in September, and completed her judicial duties there on Dec. 5, before returning to Pulaski County.

"When I left Pulaski County in 2013, I joked that I am the person always looking for a way back to this community," Sanders said. "When given the opportunity to become chief deputy prosecutor under Mr. Murphy, I was happy to accept the position and take the opportunity to raise my own family in my hometown. The prosecutor's seat is the only seat in the courtroom I have not occupied, so I look forward to learning my new position and working with the people of this community to make it an even better place for all of our families to grow and prosper."