Monroe has served as a member of the board of directors and as president of the National Flute Association. He was the NFA program chair in 1990 and later was a founder and the first editor of The Flutist Quarterly. Monroe has judged on many musical panels, including the NFA’s Young Artist Competition. He has a multitude of publications to his credit, including music periodicals, instructional manuals, arrangements, and compositions. His book, Special Fingerings for Advanced Flutists, was selected by the National Flute Association as the number-one Newly Published Pedagogical Book in 2012. His children’s piece, The Amazing Symphony Orchestra, has been performed by orchestras internationally.

Monroe was a faculty member at the Wayne State and Oakland universities in Detroit and has been a visiting professor at a number of other colleges, including the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. He has performed flute on many chamber music and solo recordings and has lectured and given masterclasses for 50 years. He was music director of several Michigan orchestras and the founding music director of the Oakland Youth Symphony, which he conducted for 10 years.

In the early 1970s, Monroe started a small publishing company called Little Piper, which specialized in flute music. The company now sells music worldwide. In 1975, Monroe became a consultant for Muramatsu flutes.Twenty years later, in 1995, he was appointed by the president of Muramatsu Inc. in Japan to head a North American company representing and distributing Muramatsu flutes. This company is known as Muramatsu America.

Monroe is a diverse musician. He played with a jazz combo in college and later a rockand- roll group that recorded for London Records. He also played background flute for a number of Motown’s greatest hits. His teachers include Robert Willoughby, Harold Bennett, and William Kincaid.