Great Basin National Park

James Woolsey is currently superintendent at Great Basin National Park.  He has 30 years of experience working at sites of natural and historical significance, including 25 years with the National Park Service and five years with the American Battle Monuments Commission. 

Over his career, Woolsey has served at national parks in the Washington D.C.-area, New England, Utah and the California Mojave Desert. In 2006, he took an assignment in France with the American Battle Monuments Commission. The commission manages 24 overseas U.S. military cemeteries and 25 monuments located in France, England, Holland, Belgium, Tunisia, Philippines, Mexico, Italy, and Luxembourg. For two years Woolsey was the director of visitor services at the Normandy American Cemetery. He was later promoted to be the commission’s Paris-based director of interpretation and visitor services for all 24 overseas cemeteries. He returned stateside and rejoined the National Park Service in 2011 to become the superintendent at Springfield Armory, MA and Coltsville, CT.

Great Basin National Park preserves valuable archaeological and historical sites, historic structures, and traditional places that remain important to people of diverse backgrounds today.