Darren Court, Museum Curator
A US Army veteran, 1986-1994, from Amarillo, Texas, Darren Court served in Bitburg, Germany, followed by White Sands Missile Range. At WSMR, he worked on a variety of test projects including ADATS, Hawk, Patriot, and more. Mr. Court received his Bachelor’s of Arts in History from New Mexico State University in 1998 and his Master’s degree in 2003. Prior to arriving at WSMR as the Museum Specialist in 2007, Mr. Court worked for several years as the Admissions Coordinator for the NMSU Graduate School. In 2008, Mr. Court became the Curator of the WSMR Museum. He was inducted into the Dona Ana County Historical Society Hall of Fame in January 2023. He lives in Las Cruces with his wife and team of seven children.
Historical Interests: the Frontier Army in New Mexico; the Bataan Death March in the Philippines and Pacific Theater Prisoners of War; the Holocaust and use of slave labor in the German V-2 Program; the Manhattan Project, and American society during the Cold War.
Jenn Jett, Museum Specialist
Jenn Jett, originally from Lima, Ohio, earned her dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and International Studies from Ohio State University and her Master’s Degree in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University. She is also pursuing certification in archival sciences through the Society of American Archivists.
Jenn is a former US Army Air Defense Artillery officer commissioned out of the Ohio State University Army ROTC program and has had the privilege to have served worldwide from Tirana, Albania to Okinawa, Japan. Prior to moving to White Sands Missile Range, she was a full-time graduate intern, serving as an archival lead and curatorial assistant at the Lewis Army Museum on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA from 2017-2020. From 2019-2020, she interned for the Washington Secretary of State’s Office at the Washington State Archives in Olympia.
Jenn lives on White Sands Missile Range with her husband, Joel, and their dog, Lazareth.
Historical Interests: the US Army since World War I, the Manhattan Project and Trinity Test, US Army technological developments in World War II and the Cold War.
