Marlene Mitchell: A story to read cover to cover
Christian Peterson
reporter.riverbendnews@gmail.com
Marlene Mitchell was born in 1953, in Baltimore, Md. She spent a lot of her childhood traveling between Maryland and Florida. In 1971, she graduated from Sparrows Pointe High School with her diploma. She then made the jump completely from Maryland to Florida by attending the University of South Florida. There, she spent a few years hard at work getting her Bachelor Degree in Behavioral Science. At this point, Mitchell began a 37-year-career that would lead her right to small town Live Oak.
Mitchell's first job was working at the Trenton Public Library, way back when it was part of the Suwannee River Regional Library System. When asked w