Jennie Woods is a cheerleader for water management careers.
It’s what she teaches students in her beginner water lab course for the Oklahoma Rural Water Association. And it’s more than lip service. As water treatment plant supervisor for the Broken Bow (Oklahoma) Public Works Authority, she lives what she teaches.Twenty-two years ago Woods was a scale house operator at the City of Broken Bow landfill when she was asked to move to the water treatment plant. Authority director Gary Swift tapped supervisor Mary Hodge to train Woods, a motivated student.“It was pure luck,” Woods says. “I had no background. They just
