Suzanne Lewis
On February 10, 2002, Suzanne Lewis began her duties as the superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. She manages more than 2.2 million acres, a staff of 800, and has an annual base budget of more than $36 million, the largest operating budget of any national park in the National Park Service. Before coming to Yellowstone, Suzanne was superintendent at Glacier National Park. She began her NPS career as a seasonal park ranger in 1978 at Gulf Islands National Seashore. During her 11-year tenure at Gulf Islands National Seashore, she served in a variety of positions, including park technician, park historian, supervisory park ranger, and management assistant to the superintendent. Chosen in 1988 for an international assignment to the Republic of Haiti, she assisted the United Nations' effort to preserve, protect, and educate Haitians in the preservation of natural and cultural resources. In 1989, Lewis was appointed acting superintendent for Christiansted National Historic Site and Buck Island Reef National Monument in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She was selected in 1990 as the first superintendent for the newly created Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve – a national park site in Jacksonville, Florida. Lewis served as the superintendent for the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1997 to April 2000, where she managed one of the busiest national recreation areas in the United States.

Ms. Lewis earned her B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in American History in 1978 from the University of West Florida. During her Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program, Lewis completed assignments with the Department of Interior Secretary's Special Assistant for Alaska, the Department of Interior Office of Management and Budget, the Walt Disney World Corporation, Harvard University, and Carnegie Mellon University.

Throughout her NPS career, Lewis has received numerous awards. In May 2010, she received the Rachel M. Carson Award for Woman in Conservation from the National Audubon Society. In 2009, she received the Presidential Rank Award for Senior Executives in government. Suzanne was named as a 2007 National Women's History Month Honoree. The National Women's History Project is known nationally as the only clearinghouse providing information to expand the understanding of women’s contribution to U.S. history. Other awards include: the Secretary's Bronze Executive Leadership Award in March 2004; the National Park Service Meritorious Service Award in September 2003; and the National Parks and Conservation Association Park Manager of the Year for Partnerships in 1994. She was also awarded the Woman of Distinction Award by the Girl Scout Councils of America in 1997.

Lewis enjoys traveling and completed a tour of national parks in southern Africa in 1996 and Sweden in 2005. Other interests include producing pottery, and the outdoors. She has been married to Michael Hurrell since 1983.