Big Bend National Park announced Tuesday that Anjna O’Connor will be the next superintendent of the park that spans over 1,200 square miles.
O’Connor is a supervisory program manager for the Army Corps of Engineers, where she supervises infrastructure construction projects for U.S. Border Patrol. In the past, she has worked as a deputy district engineer, operations project manager, environmental specialist, recreation specialist and park ranger.
She is no stranger to Texas. O’Connor led a team that managed the Army Corps campgrounds and day use areas in central Texas, which are visited by 6 million people annually. She also directed “complex large-scale projects” to include hospital construction at Fort Cavazos in Texas and infrastructure projects in Afghanistan, according to a news release.
Deputy Regional Director Lance Hatten in the release praised O’Connor for her “record of success.”
