After three decades of serving the Wood County Court of Common Pleas, Mary Bodey will retire as court administrator at the end of this month. While not necessarily aspiring to be a court administrator as a child, Ms. Bodey knew that she wanted to work in the legal field at an early age.

“I wasn’t quite 18 when I started working part time” for Kurfess and Pollex Law Offices in 1976, she said. “I was…