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3 accomplished Sarasota leaders set to retire — and get more sleep

Decades of top-level leadership will be taking a step back in the coming months with a trio of retirements: Roxie Jerde, Larry Thompson and Teri Hansen. Lessons learned are legion.


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 5:00 a.m. June 12, 2025
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Roxie Jerde, Larry Thompson and Teri Hansen say the people they work with and alongside, from students to donors to board members, are who they will miss the most in retirement.
Roxie Jerde, Larry Thompson and Teri Hansen say the people they work with and alongside, from students to donors to board members, are who they will miss the most in retirement.
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Don’t sleep on sleep. 

That’s one small, albeit significant, takeaway from separate conversations with three of the most recognized and accomplished leaders in Sarasota. 

Known to many in the civic, nonprofit and business communities by their first names — Larry, Roxie and Teri — the trio, at different times over the next 12 months or so, are all retiring. Asked one thing they are looking forward to in that next chapter, there was no hesitation: more sleep. 

 

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