The 22nd annual Athena Award was handed out yesterday and this year’s winner is Major Christy Utley from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. Utley began her career with the Marion County Sheriff's office as a dispatcher in 2000.
She was promoted to lieutenant in 2015, and currently supervises patrol, investigators, dispatch and the Dog Pound.
Utley was nominated by Chief Deputy Aaron Corwin and her charity of choice was the Boys and Girls Club of Marion, which will receive five thousand eight hundred dollars.