Beth Jacob is a senior manager in the Chicago office of Ryan, LLC. As a registered architect with over 25 years of experience in the fields of historic preservation, architecture, and planning, Beth has worked on a wide range of successful rehabilitation projects for both public and private sector clients. For the past 10 years, her work has focused on federal and state historic tax credits, National Register nominations, and preservation consulting. She has served on the boards of DOCOMOMO New Orleans, the New Orleans Architecture Foundation, and Chicago Women in Architecture. From 2014 to 2024, she was a member of New Orleans’ Historic District Landmarks Commission Architectural Review Committee. In 2017, Beth was awarded the Richard Morris Hunt Fellowship, a prize conferred biennially to one American preservation architect for six months of research, travel, and professional exchange in France. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University, a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Preservation Studies from the Tulane School of Architecture.