At age 80, Jim Rhoden continues to go into his office every day and continues to fulfill his father’s life-lesson of “Pay your civic rent.” I found his perspective on delivering community service to be one that is both simple and profound. Key components of his approach include:

• Pay your civic rent!
• Business and community service are inextricably intertwined
• “Give everybody that asks you for something, something!”
• Small, steady, quiet, relentless community service over a long span of years has a huge impact

Jim and I discussed those principles and more as well the legacy of which he is most proud – the Cobb Community Foundation.

Thank you, Jim Rhoden, for your service to our community!