Rooms was born on 1 January 1961 in
Edinburgh. She was educated at
Nottingham Girls' High School and at the
University of Bristol, where she graduated BA in 1982. She worked in sales and marketing with
Procter and Gamble and in logistics with
Boots. She then spent seven years living in northern
Tanzania, where she worked with the
Anglican Church of Tanzania and also established a café business in
Moshi, Tanzania. Upon her return to the
United Kingdom, she volunteered with
Citizens Advice and trained for ordination at
St John's College, Nottingham, and was ordained as a priest in 2007. She served as a curate in the parish of
Hyson Green from 2006 to 2009, and then as vicar of
St Ann's from 2009 to 2016, both in the city of
Nottingham. In 2016, she was appointed Canon Missioner at
Leicester Cathedral, a position which she combined with parish ministry at St Andrew's Jarrom Street and at
St Nicholas,
Leicester. Her appointment as
Dean of Leicester was announced on 1 December 2023. ==References==