Susan (Su) Jewell retired in 2024 after 31 years as a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For the first 6 years, she was the Senior Biologist at the A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in the Everglades where she oversaw the management of natural resources, including controlling invasives species. Then she moved to the USFWS’s national HQ, where she spent 11 years working on outreach and listing for endangered species. The next 14 years she spent as Injurious Wildlife Listing Coordinator, overseeing the regulatory listing of high-risk wildlife designated as injurious to prevent their importation. She is an authority on the history of injurious wildlife since 1900 and on John Lacey, who was the author of “the Lacey Act of 1900” and known as “the father of conservation legislation.” Pre-USFWS, Su spent 2 years at Everglades National Park doing fieldwork on alligators, wading birds, and fisheries. She also did wading bird research for the National Audubon Society in the Everglades. Other previous fieldwork includes wood storks, Atlantic puffins, bobcats, and gopher tortoises. Su is a freelance writer of environmental subjects and has published three books. She is focusing her retirement on writing, primarily on invasive wildlife. She has a B.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Vermont and M.S. in Systematics and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and is a Certified Wildlife Biologist®.
