Foothill Ranch Resident to Run Mission Museum

A Foothill Ranch resident will take on responsibility for the historic collections at  in a week's time.

Jennifer Ring, a longtime director at the Bowers Museum with an art history degree from California State University Fullerton, arrives at the mission as it showcases its new, permanent exhibit "," and as it prepares to break ground on a new entryway Dec. 14.

"Timing is just right as we approach a new chapter of Mission history with the soon-to-begin ," Mechelle Lawrence-Adams, Executive Director of the mission, said in a statement.

Ring worked for nearly 16 years at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, most recently as its director of registration and collections, said spokesman Joe Haakenson in a press release.

The position at the mission is a new one, though Ring is filling a vacant post redefined as "Museum Registrar" because of the increased focus the mission is placing on its role as a museum, Haakenson told Patch.

"It goes along with the idea that the "Mission Treasures: Historical Collection Revealed" exhibit has become a permanent exhibit with priceless artifacts," he said.

Ring earned a degree in History at CSU Fullerton in 1991 and also did postgraduate work in Art History at CSU Fullerton in 1998. Ring is married with two daughters.

"As daughters of Orange County, she and I share a perspective and love for Orange County that will also make working together especially meaningful," said Lawrence-Adams.