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Jordan Fogler, 37

Lessons learned from his father and at the Naval Academy guide a commercial real estate executive.


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 p.m. October 12, 2023
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Jordan Fogler has always be able to go to his father and mentor Bill Fogler for advice.
Jordan Fogler has always be able to go to his father and mentor Bill Fogler for advice.
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Like a lot of young people at the time, Jordan Fogler decided to attend one of the country’s military service academies after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. 

He was a sophomore in high school when terrorists flew jet liners into the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. “For me,” he says, “that was like a catalyst.”

That eventually led Fogler to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, the same place his father, Bill, graduated. "I worked hard in high school and ended up getting in,” he says. “And the rest is history.”

 


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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.

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