Leadership

Brittany Cohill holds a bachelor’s degree in history and psychology and a master’s degree in U.S. history from the University of North Florida.

She has devoted her professional career to both the academic and public history fields. Beginning as an archives intern in graduate school, she has since held various leadership roles in Jacksonville’s museum industry. 

In March 2023, Cohill was named Executive Director of the Mandarin Museum & Historical Society. She has been an adjunct professor of history at Jacksonville University since 2018 and has developed courses in The History of the Modern World, U.S. History since 1865, the History of the Civil Rights Movement, and Women in Modern America. In 2023, she was awarded Jacksonville University’s inaugural Adjunct Faculty of Excellence Award.

Cohill serves on the University of North Florida’s College of Arts and Sciences Industry Advisory Board. She also serves as a mentor to UNF upperclassmen and graduate students through the university’s Community Alliance for Student Success. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, David, their three children, and extended family near and far.

Her family’s connection to U.S. military service runs deep. Cohill’s great-grandfather served as a sergeant in the United States Cavalry under General Pershing during the Mexican Expedition and in France during World War I. Her maternal grandfather served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, surviving an attack by a German U-boat while onboard LST-333 in the Mediterranean. 

Cohill’s paternal grandfather spent his career with the U.S. Coast Guard and was the commanding officer of Army vessel FS-156 assigned to the Southwest Pacific in May 1944. Her father-in-law retired as a commander from the U.S. Navy after deploying overseas as a physician with the medical corps during Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, and Iraqi Freedom. She admires them – and all U.S. Veterans – tremendously for their courage, sacrifice, and service to our nation.