Mary Aveni

Mary Aveni has been selected as the new city administrator of Decherd. A native of Franklin County, Aveni returns to Tennessee from Villa Rica, Ga. She most recently served as a business analyst for the Clay County, Fla., Sherrif’s Office since 2020. Prior to that, she was the owner and consultant of print management and sales firm for six years based on Fleming Island, Fla., and spent four years as a systems administrator with Waste Not Want Not in Orange Park, Fla. She also spent nearly eight years running a PostNet shipping and printing franchise in Orange Park and nearly nine years with the Ford Motor Credit Company where she worked in both Woodland Hills, Calif., and Franklin. She also spent five years at First American National Bank in Nashville. Aveni holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a focus in banking and finance from the University of Mississippi.