• 48

• Ellisville resident

• Grew up as Rene Renfro in what's now Wildwood (her neighborhood used to be called Hollow).

• Graduated in 1981 from Lafayette High School.

• As volunteer Market Master, oversees about 20 to 25 vegetable, fruit and local artisan vendors at the market each week.

• Day job is as a massage therapist with her own firm, Healing Hands Wellness Therapy in Ballwin.

• Her family includes her husband of eight years, George, and grown children Gabriel, Hannah, Ryan, and Tod.