Author: Jean Cutler

Jean Cutler is the Director of the Bureau for Historic Preservation and Deputy State Historic Preservation at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commisison. She manages the Commonwealth's historic preservation programs under the authority of the Pennsylvania History Code and the National Historic Preservation Act.
Prior to this position, Ms. Cutler had a broad range of employment with arts and historical organizations and federal government agencies. Most recently, she served as the Executive Director of the PA Federation of Museum and Historical Organizations; previous to that employment, she was the Program Director at the Hershey Museum, Director of the Doshi Center for Contemporary Art; Public Information Officer for the Sun Inn Prservation Association; and art history instructor at Penn Sate University, Mt. Alto Campus. She spent almost 10 years employed in federal government service, including assigments as assistant editor for the Central Intelligence Agency and as a bi-lingual Research Intelligence Analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency. She was posted to Washington , DC; Paris, France; Hong Kong, BCC; and, Beirut, Lebanon.
She received her undergraduate degree in Foreign Service from Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia and completed graduate work at the Pennsylvania State University in Art History. Throughout her career, Ms. Cutler has participated in continuing education programs through professional meetings, conferences, seminars and workshops.
She currently lives in Harrisburg, PA where she is actively engaged in several activities related to community revitalization and economic development.