Jessica Puff was named administrator of the Department of Land and Natural Resources State Historic Preservation Division, now leading the division she worked in from 2014 to 2017. Following her departure in 2017, Puff worked for the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office while pursuing her Ph.D. in Architecture at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, before returning to SHPD as architecture branch chief in 2022.