What does a career spanning more than three decades in one place look like? Ask Michele “Shelly” Higdon, laboratory manager for the Shelbyville (Indiana) Water Resource Recovery Facility.
Hired at age 19, lightly trained and heavily self-educated, Higdon advanced from mainly secretarial work to her current position. Early on, she discovered her most valuable resource — the Southern Indiana Operators Association — and earned her Class I (lowest) operator’s license.
Higdon’s dedication to the association shows in the offices she has held. “I’m almost a fixture when it comes to secretary/treasurer, but I have been president twice,” she says. She has also represented the group on the executive board of the
