Dr. Nancy Woodley, Ph.D, PE, assistant city manager, is filling the role of city manager while the search for a new manager takes place.

Woodley began working for the city in 1999 as city engineer. In 2007 she was named general manager of development  services, and later in the year stepped in as interim city manager for nine months while a city manager search was conducted.

In 2009, she was promoted to assistant city manager and has served in that position since.

Before moving to Venice in 1997, Woodley served the city of Louisville and Jefferson County Regional Planning Commission in 1968-69. The following year she moved to Tuscaloosa, Ala., where she worked as the principal planner and later project manager for the Regional Planning Commission.There she worked on a project in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency, developing a wastewater treatment management plan for the urban area. She was one of four women in the nation working on such a project at the time.

After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa School of Engineering, she helped corporations get federal and state permits for discharging water and designed wastewater treatment facilities.

While serving the citizens of Venice she has headed several major improvement projects such as the renovating the Venice Community Center, facilitating the relocation of underground infrastructure during the state's widening of U.S. 41 Business, reconstructing  the Venice Fishing Pier, and negotiating the city's partnership with Sarasota County School Board staff for the state-of-the-art performing arts center to be completed in 2014 on the Venice High campus.