Glacier National Park Superintendent Mick Holm on Monday announced the selection of Stephanie Dubois as the new deputy superintendent for the park.

Dubois has served as superintendent of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico since July 2002. She will take over her new duties at Glacier in early April.

Prior to her current position, Dubois worked as superintendent of Aztec Ruins National Monument, also in New Mexico.

Dubois has worked for the National Park Service off and on since she graduated from high school in Rockville, Md., in 1974. Her first position was a summer job for the Youth Conservation Corps in Catoctin Mountain Park, Md. During her summers in college, she worked at a Youth Conservation Corps camp in Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park, Va.

After graduating from Duke University in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in botany, Dubois worked as a seasonal ranger at Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona and Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts. She later worked as a permanent ranger at Roger Williams National Memorial in Rhode Island, Gateway National Recreational Area in New Jersey, Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Arizona.

According to Holm, "Her past experience with the NPS will be a great asset to Glacier in managing the park as we move into the rehabilitation of the Going-to-the-Sun Road and tackle other projects on the park's horizon. I am delighted to welcome her as part of Glacier National Park's management team."

Dubois has received numerous awards, including the George Wright Society Communications Award in 2001 and the Department of the Interior's Superior Service Award in 2002.

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