Minnesota born, Summer graduated from South Dakota State University in 1997 with a bachelor of arts degree in Business-Economics. She spent the next two years teaching Economics at South Dakota State while working towards her Master of Science degree in Economics.

Summer joined Bender Commercial Real Estate Services in July of 1999. Summer is a licensed broker associate.  Her focus is marketing property listings and property research. She also maintains and continuously updates Bender Commercial’s web site.

Summer has been married to her husband, Martin, since 2001.  They have two sons, Garret and Tommy.  Her favorite past time is watching her boys play baseball, football and basketball.