Biography
Kelli Pickard became the Director of the Log Cabin Village Historical Complex, a living history museum in Fort Worth, Texas, in June 1998. She previously served as Director of the Red River Historical Museum of Sherman for over three years.
Kelli graduated from the University of North Texas in 1994 with a MS in Applied History (Museum and Archival Studies), and from the University of Texas at Arlington with a BA in History and Anthropology in 1993. Kelli is a 1996 graduate of the Winedale Museum Seminar on Administration and Interpretation.
She has been an active member of the Texas Association of Museums since 1993, and is currently President of the Texas Association of Museums. Kelli has served as a presenter at several TAM Annual Meetings, on the TAM Program Committee for two years, and as a TAM Council member since 2001. In August 2006, she was appointed to serve on the Museum Assessment Program Advisory Committee for the American Association of Museums.