Renée Hodges, Author

Residence: Durham, NC

Although her Louisiana roots run deep, Renée Hodges and her husband have called North Carolina home for the past thirty years.

Hodges has worked as a campaign manager for a candidate for the Texas State House of Representatives (she won); front desk person at a ski resort; and volunteer recruiter and registration head during a presidential campaign in New York City.

She also co-wrote and self-published the Best Kept Secrets series of guides in the 1980s.

Settling into motherhood and raising a family has been her most satisfying work, however, and today she is a wife, mother of three, writer, investor, community volunteer, and avid tennis player.