Meet Stephanie Smith
| 16 November 2009
Stephanie Smith joined the family business in 2000, while still a reporter at The Palm Beach Post. She left the Post in 2005, after five years on the business staff.
During her 20-year journalism career, she covered local governments, state and federal courts, and business for the Post, the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, the Texarkana Gazette. Vernon Daily Record and United Press International.
The daughter of a career U.S. Army master sergeant who served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam wars, she has lived in Seoul, Korea; Long Branch, N.J.; West Point, NY; San Diego, New Orleans, various towns in Texas including El Paso, Waco, Denton and Alpine and Washington D.C.
Her interest in journalism began in high school, where she wrote for the Alpine Avalanche for 25 cents a word and was editor of the Alpine, Texas High School newspaper and year book. Journalism scholarships such as those from the Carl B. and Florence E. King Foundation paid her way through college, and she graduated with a B.S. in Journalism from North Texas University in Denton after transferring from Texas Woman’s University.
She had absolutely no familiarity with boats, wooden or otherwise, until she met her husband Jim Moores in 1990. He lived on a wooden motor sailor and lived and sailed to islands she had never heard of such as Dominica and his birthday is one day before her’s, and she found all of this charming.
Since joining the family business, she has found her journalism experience has come in handy for everything from researching difficult to find parts to reading a profit and loss statement that came from reporting on publicly traded companies.