Danielle Leonard, State Farm Insurance

Whether helping a family navigate the aftermath of a house fire or aiding an individual after a car crash, Danielle Leonard and her State Farm Insurance team are ready to help their clients recover from the unexpected and be prepared for everyday life.

Licensed to provide insurance services in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., Leonard and her team bring more than 50 years of experience in the field. They provide personal, automotive and home insurance as well as life insurance products and a few health insurance offerings.

“I have a really great team that truly cares about our agency and our customers and they are going to do what they need to do to make sure everyone is taken care of,” Leonard said. “Everyone that works here has been handpicked over the years and I just feel blessed to have such great people around me.”

With an office located on the Golden Mile, Leonard and her team are a local presence for their clients. “They can come in and see us,” she said. “When they call the office, the same people (are going to be) answering the phone. ...We bend over backwards for our customers.”

Leonard was first drawn to the insurance world many years ago, while working as a summer intern at State Farm in Frederick. After graduating with a business degree from Towson University, she returned to State Farm. One of the roles she took on was training agents and their teams in the area. “I just always was attracted to that side of the business and decided while I was in that role of training and leading a group of agents that I would go through the process to open my own agency,” she said. Leonard opened her office in 2007 and has made giving back to the community a priority ever since. She is on the board for Habitat for Humanity Frederick County and is an active member of the Frederick County Association of Realtors and the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce. She is also a Good Samaritan for Frederick Health and donates annually to the Clutch the Future fundraising auction for Women to Women Mentoring. “I feel like we are very blessed to sit in such a great community,” she said. “We all have to help each other. It is just a matter of wanting Frederick to continue to be a great place and wanting all of these nonprofits, that do so much great work in our community, to continue to succeed and do the things that they need to do.”