Glacier National Park names interim superintendent
Dec. 8—Glacier National Park has chosen a temporary successor for retiring Superintendent Jeff Mow.
According to the park's public information officer Gina Kerzman, Kate Hammond will be stepping into the interim position beginning in January as the park looks for a permanent superintendent.
"The vacancy has not yet been announced for Mow's position," Kerzman said. "It probably will not be advertised until after he retires, meaning Kate will be activating as our superintendent while the park searches for Mow's permanent replacement."
Hammond will be coming to Glacier National Park after serving as the deputy director and chief of staff for the National Park Service's Intermountain Region in Denver since 2016, where she oversaw a combination of 49 public sites in eight states, including national parks, national historic parks, national recreation areas and national monuments in Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
With more than 25 years of service with the National Park Service, Hammond began her career as a backcountry ranger at Denali National Park in Alaska in the mid 1990s before going on to serve as superintendent at several NPS sites, including Montana's Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument from 2009 to 2012.
A native of Massachusetts, Hammond earned a bachelor's degree in history and environmental studies from Yale University and a master's in environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry.
She has served as an interpretive planner and project manager for the Park Service's Harpers Ferry Center, a chief of interpretation at Amistad National Recreation Area in Texas and worked as a park ranger at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico and Walden Pond State Park in Massachusetts.
Before joining the Park Service, Hammond was a Peace Corps volunteer in Argentina, where she managed the interpretive program at El Palmar National Park.
