Florida-Based Brightway Insurance Selects Heidelberg as Communications Manager

September 20, 2016

Brightway Insurance has named Courtney Heidelberg as its public relations and communications manager. Heidelberg brings 16 years of experience as a professional communicator to Brightway, where she leads communications efforts including serving as the primary contact for media. Brightway Insurance is a national property/casualty insurance retailer selling through a network of franchised independent agencies throughout the country.

Heidelberg, who works out of Brightway’s Jacksonville, Fla.-based headquarters, comes to the company from On 3 Public Relations in Tallahassee, where she was director of Accounts for nearly three years.

Additionally, she worked as a PR practitioner in Florida state government for nine years, which included serving as the communications director for the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

Heidelberg also served in the U.S. Army and in the Florida National Guard as a Signal Officer. Her military service included a yearlong tour in Iraq in 2004-2005.

Heidelberg is a member of the Florida Public Relations Association and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Appointed by Gov. Rick Scott, she served on the Veterans Florida Board of Directors from 2014 to 2016.

Heidelberg earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and a Master of Science in Communications from Florida State University in Tallahassee.