Claudette Stager retired from the Tennessee Historical Commission where she was the Assistant Director for Federal Programs and the Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. She joined the staff in 1985 as the coordinator of the National Register of Historic Places program. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University. After graduating from Eastern Michigan University with a Master of Science in historic preservation, she worked as a consultant in Wisconsin. Stager has been a presenter at various local, state, and national events and written articles on preservation topics. She is a former vice president of the Society for Commercial Archeology and has also served on the board of Historic Germantown Neighborhood Association. She currently serves on the boards of the Nashville City Cemetery and the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians. Stager is a co-editor of Looking Beyond the Highway: Dixie Roads and Culture and wrote on Tennessee’s architecture for the Society of Architectural Historians online Archipedia.