Dottie Pepper was one of the top LPGA golfers throughout the 1990's.

After attending Furman University, Pepper joined the LPGA Tour in 1988. She won seventeen official events on the tour, including two major championships, namely 1992 and 1999 Kraft Nabisco Championships. She topped the money list in 1992 and finished in the top ten in ten of eleven seasons between 1991 and 2001. She played for the United States in the Solheim Cup six times.

Due to injury problems Pepper only played one tournament in 2002 and in July 2004 she announced that she would be retiring at the end of the season.

In 2005 she began work as a commentator for NBC and The Golf Channel.