Full Name
Sherry Frear
Job Title
Chief of the National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program
Company
National Park Service
Speaking At
Speaker Bio
Sherry A. Frear, RLA, is Chief of the National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program, a role she assumed in May 2020. Supported by credentials in historic preservation, landscape architecture, and project management, her experience ranges from programming and planning, to design and construction management, to interpretation and outreach.
Sherry spent her formative professional years working for a large Washington, D.C., law firm, where she specialized in construction litigation support. Through volunteer work at the National Building Museum, she discovered the range of career options in the A/E/C profession, which lead her to Cornell University, where she earned master’s degrees in Historic Preservation Planning and Landscape Architecture. She has worked at the city, county, and federal levels, and is a licensed landscape architect (MD).
Sherry spent her formative professional years working for a large Washington, D.C., law firm, where she specialized in construction litigation support. Through volunteer work at the National Building Museum, she discovered the range of career options in the A/E/C profession, which lead her to Cornell University, where she earned master’s degrees in Historic Preservation Planning and Landscape Architecture. She has worked at the city, county, and federal levels, and is a licensed landscape architect (MD).
