Jay D. Vogt is the recently retired director of the South Dakota State Historical Society and State Historic Preservation Officer. A South Dakota native, Vogt is a past president of the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, and he has served on several national task forces on various historic preservation issues.  Vogt is also active in the American Association for State and Local History. He and his wife Elizabeth live in Pierre, South Dakota, and have three grown sons, Gabriel, Joshua, and Zachary.