Bering Land Bridge Superintendent Named

Jeanette Pomrenke has been named superintendent of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve.

Pomrenke brings an extensive background in administration and management to the position, which is based in Nome – the headquarters city for the 2.5 million acre unit. She has been the transportation program director of Kawerak, Inc. in Nome and was responsible for the planning, development, and implementation of Kawerak's transportation program.  Prior to that, she was the planning and development and tribal services director for Nome Eskimo Community

This is Pomrenke’s second tour with the National Park Service -- from 1994 to 1998 she worked as an interpretation ranger at Bering Land Bridge. She is expert in the preserve's natural and cultural history and its current subsistence uses. She won the NPS Freeman Tilden Alaska Area Award for Excellence in Interpretation in 1997.

Pomrenke graduated from Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, in 1994.  She holds a BS in general science.  She is lifelong resident of the Bering Straits region; her parents are Joe and Grace Cross. She is a tribal member of Nome Eskimo Community and one of the troop leaders of the Farthest North Girl Scout Troop 156, also based in Nome.

She began her work at Bering Land Bridge last week.