News Release

Superintendent Teri Gage Retires

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News Release Date: June 8, 2025

Contact: Sue Bennett, 773-928-7257

On Friday, May 30, 2025, Superintendent Teri Gage will hang up her flat hat for the last time. After nearly four decades of service with the National Park Service [NPS], she has announced her retirement. A native of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Teri started her NPS career in 1986 as a clerk-typist at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, while still in high school. She went on to serve in administrative management positions at several parks throughout the Service before being named Superintendent of Pullman National Monument (Now Pullman National Historical Park) in early 2020.

Under her leadership, the iconic Pullman clock tower building was transformed from a hulking shell of a building to a vibrant visitor center and exhibit hall that connects visitors from around the world to the compelling Pullman stories of American opportunity, industrialization, urban planning, architecture, rail transportation, and labor and civil rights. She saw the park through its redesignation as a National Historical Park, partnered with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to complete the Joint General Management Plan, and nurtured a talented cadre of park rangers who will continue to fulfill the National Park Service mission.

"Serving as the Superintendent of Pullman has been an honor and is the perfect capstone to my National Park Service career," Gage said about her final assignment. "I will always be proud of the work we've accomplished at Pullman and I will be eternally thankful to our park rangers who make the magic happen and to all of our park partners, neighbors, went volunteers who provided support along the way. I've had a great career with the National Park Service. No regrets."

Teri and her husband Paul Taylor, a 15-year veteran of the National Park Service, plan to retire in northern Wisconsin.