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2003 Accreditation Inspector of the Year
Jack Grisham: Curatorial and Husbandry<
Associate Curator, Smithsonian National Zoological Park
Jack Grisham has been participating in accreditation inspections for twelve years. He has given of his time to AZA for ten inspections, serving as team Chair for half of them. Jack started at the St. Louis Zoo in the mid-1960s in a variety of jobs from concession stand to supply clerk. After two years in Vietnam in the U.S. Army Infantry, Jack landed his first keeper job at the St. Louis Zoo in 1971. He worked his way up through the ranks to Assistant Curator of Mammals in 1982, finally joining the Oklahoma City Zoo as Director of Animal Management from 1986 to 2002.
In addition to service as an active accreditation inspector, Jack serves AZA as the Cheetah Species Survival Plan Coordinator, and Chair of the Canid, Hyena and Aardwolf Taxon Advisory Group. To date, Jack has participated in the following inspections: Dallas Aquarium (twice), Dallas Zoo, Red McComb's Ranch (twice), Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (twice), Oakhill Center for Rare & Endangered Species, San Diego Wild Animal Park, and the Potter Park Zoo.
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