NHPRC Commission Members
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) is a 15-member body, chaired by the Archivist of the United States, and composed of representatives of the three branches of the Federal government and of professional associations of archivists, historians, documentary editors, and records administrators.
| Archivist of the United States, Chair | David S. Ferriero |
| Representing the United States Supreme Court | Judge Jeremy D. Fogel |
| U.S. Senate | VACANT |
| U.S. House of Representatives | VACANT |
| Presidential Appointee | Karen L. Jefferson, Records Manager, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center |
| Presidential Appointee | James W. Ceaser, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia |
| Department of Defense | Erin Mahan, Chief Historian |
| Library of Congress | Nicole Saylor, Head, American Folklife Center Archive |
| State Department | Stephen Randolph, Historian |
| Association for Documentary Editing | Ray Smock, Director, Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies, Shepherd University |
| American Association for State and Local History | Rodger E. Stroup, Curator, South Carolina Railroad Museum |
| American Historical Association | William G. Thomas, III, Chairman, Department of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators | Jerry Handfield, State Archivist, Washington State Archives |
| Organization of American Historians | George Miles, Curator, Western Americana Collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University |
| Society of American Archivists | Peter Gottlieb, former State Archivist in Wisconsin and Past President of the Society of American Archivists |
Read the Commission's Conflict of Interest Policy
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