When Debbie Marks first took the job as administrator of the Englewood Community Redevelopment Agency in December 2007, it was supposed to be a temporary assignment.
That turned into a 15-year fourth act of a career that started when she was an Army reservist working as a congressional liaison, answering soldiers’ concerns at the U.S. Army Soldier Support Center at Fort Benjamin Harrison near Indianapolis.
“I fell in love with it when I came down here and I have to be honest, when they first sent me down, I had never been this far south,” said Marks, who vacationed in the area with family and first moved to Bradenton from Indiana in 1984.
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