Natchez — Robin Seage Person, branch director of Historic Jefferson College, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, received the Museum Leadership Award at the 2009 annual meeting of the Southeastern Museums Conference at Charleston, W.V.

The Museum Leadership Award recognizes mid-career museum professionals who have shown significant advancement within the profession by leadership in museum activities.

Award eligibility requires 10 years of experience and a minimum of five years tenure with a museum in the SEMC region.

Person joined the staff at Historic Jefferson College in May 2008 after serving for 12 years as executive director of the Cottonlandia Museum in Greenwood.