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Don McIlwain

Director
National Archives and Records Administration
Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Don McIlwain Bio for the 2024 AALL Conference

Don McIlwain currently serves as a supervisory archivist and Director of the FOIA/MDR Division in the National Declassification Center (NDC) at the National Archives and has since January 2010. He directs a staff that processes access demand requests for classified Federal and Presidential records that have been accessioned into the National Archives. Prior to the creation of the NDC, he served as a supervisory archivist in the Initial Processing and Declassification Division from March 2002 to December 2009. There he oversaw a variety of archival activities including accessioning, declassification review and archival description of civilian agency records. Prior to becoming a supervisory archivist, he served as subject area specialist dealing with the accessioning, description and declassification of records pertaining to the foreign relations of the United States. Don has also worked as an archivist in the Initial Processing and Declassification Division, Textual Projects Division, and Center for Electronic Records. He has served as an instructor for several courses including Managing the Lifecycle of National Security Information, the Modern Archives Institute, and Introduction to Archives for Archives Technicians and has provided a NARA perspective at FOIA symposiums for the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense and Office of Government Information Services. He holds an undergraduate degree in history from Auburn University and a master’s degree in management from the University of Maryland Global Campus.

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