Barbara Chappell grew up as the youngest of three girls.
“Dad figured out he wasn’t going to have a boy, so I was his fishing and hunting buddy,” says Chappell, water services director in Goodyear, Arizona.Her experiences fishing on the Phoenix area’s reservoirs, also sources of the region’s drinking water, instilled an appreciation for water resources that led to her choice of careers. She started in an entry-level position with the city of Avondale (population 91,000), progressed through various roles in operations and, with help from college degrees in engineering and public administration, moved up into leadership.Today after eight years with
