How Cheri McDaniel became Baton Rouge’s first female homebuilder nearly six decades ago

    In 1958, Cheri McDaniel was a 30-year-old hospital dietitian who longed to be a stay-at-home mom to her only child. So she came up with an unconventional plan, as Business Report details in a feature …


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