He has also been a small business owner and a construction manager, has helped to export American ambulances overseas and co-founded a company that began by recapturing recyclable motor oil and which now operates globally.

As a business owner, non-profit director and now state representative, Spencer Frye has met and worked with folks from all over the community and successfully balanced the interests of citizens, private enterprise and government.

His wife, Gretchen, is an emergency room nurse at Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital and his two children attend public school in Athens Clarke County.

An entrepreneur at heart, Spencer is optimistic about the future and what can be accomplished with the right vision and a little shoe leather.