A member of the IT team, Jim Rodgers is database administrator for Catholic Answers. He primarily manages the Salesforce database and provides user support, builds regular and ad hoc reports for development, sales, and marketing, and contributes additional support for the apostolate’s network, email, and other software.
One of Catholic Answers’ longest-tenured employees and a graduate of both Coronado High School and San Diego State University, Jim joined the staff in April 2004. Previously he had worked in a variety of support and software development roles in the geographic information systems (GIS) and IT industries.
A cradle Catholic who calls San Diego his hometown and has a devotion to St. Augustine, Jim and his wife Martha were married in 2003, and the couple enjoys spending time with their 12 nieces and nephews. They often travel the U.S. to see friends and family—and attend college football and basketball games—and have visited Europe several times (including the 2006 Torino Olympics) as well as Australia, Singapore, Fiji, and Sweden. In his free time, Jim also enjoys snow skiing, racquetball, mountain biking, and reviewing craft breweries.
With a large Irish Catholic Boston family on the one side and a large German Catholic Pittsburgh family on the other, Jim’s parents originally moved to Coronado Island to be close to his grandfather, Vice Admiral Bertram Rodgers, U.S.N., who retired there. Vice Admiral Rodgers, a Navy Cross recipient, commanded the U.S.S. Salt Lake City in World War II, a heavy cruiser famous for victory in the 1943 Battle of the Komandorski Islands despite being outgunned and outnumbered. Rodgers credited their division’s survival that day to divine intervention after his lifelong friend, Father Richard Hodge, spent part of the battle with him on the ship’s bridge.