Growing up, Anji Maddox, owner and operator of She Spies Private Eye, Inc., was not your typical little girl in a lot of ways. While most girls her age were playing with Barbie Dolls and practicing ballet, Anji was hanging out at libraries. While this may sound atypical to you, to Anji it was perfectly normal as she greatly enjoyed playing the role of an investigator in training, helping her mother,a genealogy expert, investigate and track down people from the past. While Anji’s friends and classmates were reading Nancy Drew books, Anji was a real-life Nancy Drew!

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She grew to love the projects that her mother would assign to her and the satisfaction that came with unraveling a mystery. And when it was time for Anji to go off to college, choosing her major was an easy and natural decision. Anji earned her degree in criminal justice. While she was earning her degree she was strongly encouraged by one of her professors to consider becoming a probation officer. Her professor helped her land a job in Adult Probation, writing pre-sentence investigation reports, which were vital in helping judges determine the appropriate sentence for defendants. This job required extensive investigative skills, resourcefulness and the ability to be exceptionally detail-oriented.

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Anji then did her college internship with the Victoria County Juvenile Probation Department where she cut her teeth as a Juvenile Probation Officer (JPO). She loved it and found that the kids responded very favorably to her compassionate approach. She loved it so much, in fact, that she accepted a permanent job as a JPO and spent the next seven years refining her skills and developing a real passion for helping the challenged and at-risk youth that she was appointed to work with.