Catherine Light, currently superintendent for Chamizal and Gila Cliff Dwellings, has been selected as the park’s deputy superintendent. She assumes her new duties on September 23rd.
Catherine has worked for the National Park Service for 19 years, beginning her career as a co-op landscape architect at Denver Service Center. She then served in several positions in Southeast Regional Office in Atlanta and left there in 2001 to serve as the site manager for the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail.
In 2006, she became the superintendent at Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Airmen and Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail.
Catherine shares her life with her husband Xavier Light and their four daughters Kennedi, Moye’, Carington, and London.