Jordan Patty is an Archivist for the US Congress Naming Commission. Previous positions include Records and Information Management Specialist in the SEC Office of Records Management Services, Archivist in Textual Processing at the National Archives and Records Administration in College Park, Media Collections Cataloger at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (contractor), Manuscripts and Archives Librarian at the George Mason University Libraries, and Processing Archivist at the Catholic University of America Libraries. He holds a M.L.S. from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in history from George Mason University.