Sheila Minor, who earned her bachelor's degree in biological sciences from American University in Washington, DC in 1970, first worked for the US Fish & Wildlife Services Mammal Division in 1970 before getting hired by the Smithsonian Institutions Environmental Research Center as a GS-7/9 Research Technician.
Mrs. Sheila Jones (also Sheila Diane Minor) earned her bachelor's degree in biological sciences from American University in Washington, DC in 1970 and worked for Dr. Clyde Jones, chief of the mammal division, at the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. She began her thirty-five year federal career as a part time GS- 3 Clerk Typist, while attending undergraduate school at AU. In 1970, she worked for the US Fish & Wildlife Service's Mammal Division, located at the Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. In 1972, Sheila was hired by the Smithsonian Institution's Environmental Research Center as a GS-7/9 Research Technician in Edgewater, MD. 
