Jelain Chubb, state archivist and director of the Archives and Information Services Division at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the College of Charleston, and dual master’s degrees in library and information science and applied history with a specialization in archival administration from the University of South Carolina at Columbia.
Jelain began her professional experience as a search room assistant at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History conducting reference interviews and assisting researchers using state and local government records. She later became the assistant curator of archival collections for the University of South Carolina’s University Archives and moved on to increasingly responsible professional positions as local records archivist for the Kansas State Historical Society, administrative archivist for the Local Records Program at the Missouri State Archives, and as state archivist for Ohio and Texas.
An active member NAGARA since 1998, Jelain has held several leadership positions including as a member of the board of directors from 2005-2009 and 2017-2019. She also served as a member of multiple annual meeting program committees and chaired the 2007 and 2015 local arrangement committees. Jelain is a member of the Council of State Archivists, Academy of Certified Archivists and the Institute of Certified Records Managers, as well as regional and local archival and historical organizations. In 2015 she was named a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists (SAA).