Marie was
born and raised in North Carolina and graduated from Meredith College.
She has served churches in North Carolina, Illinois, and Belgium
as a youth minister. Marie was the Assistant to the Vice President
of Academic Affairs at Peace College in Raleigh North Carolina,
and she was the Registrar at the Mekane Yesus Theological Seminary
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she also served on the faculty.
She came to Vanderbilt from a position as a church administrator
in Franklin, Tennessee, where she has lived for five years with
her husband, Mark, her children, Atticus (15) and Claire (13), and
her golden retriever, Lily. Marie and her family are members of
Immanuel Baptist Church, where she is a deacon. She spends much
of her free time doing volunteer work with the Williamson County
Democratic Party, for which she is the Recording Secretary and a
member of the Executive Committee. Marie likes action/adventure
movies and wishes she had more time to travel.
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