A LIFE UNEXPECTED
Even though Jane Bowie, director of innovation at Maker’s Mark, was born in and grew up in Kentucky, that did not mean that a career for her in Bourbon was pre-determined. “I grew up in Monticello, Kentucky in dry county,” recalls Bowie. “It was a town of 5,000 and all the people you knew with successful jobs were lawyers, doctors, bankers or teachers.”
Indeed, Bowie’s parents were in that group. Her mother a teacher and her father a banker. “And drinking was very taboo. I never saw my parents drink a drop of alcohol. There was church three times
