Susan Henshaw Jones

Susan Henshaw Jones was the Director of the Museum of the City of New York from February 2003 and retired on December 2015.

Career Jones headed the New York Landmarks Conservancy from 1975 to 1980 and from 1990 to 1993. She was head of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. in 1994 until 2003.

According to Robert A.M. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, Jones built the fledgling National Building Museum into a "major institution."

Jones is credited with bringing the museum to financial stability, greatly increasing the budget, thoroughly renovating and modernizing the building, updating the exhibits, staging temporary exhibitions and programs that draw public attention, and greatly increasing visitor numbers.

Jones earned her B.A. in English Literature from Vassar College and later completed her MBA at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. She is married to federal judge Richard K. Eaton, and together they have two daughters, Alice and Liza Eaton.