EDUCATION
Certificate in Appraisal and  Connoisseurship of Fine and Decorative Arts, George Washington University.
LLM, Taxation, George Washington University Law Center.
JD, George Washington University Law Center.
BA, Art History and Classical Studies, University of Michigan.

CREDENTIALS
Accredited Member, International Society of Appraisers.
Candidate Member, American Society of Appraisers.
Member, District of Columbia Bar and Bar Association.

APPRAISAL AND RELATED EXPERIENCE
Independent Appraiser, Archival researcher, Alexandria Museum of Archaeology, 2004-present.
Appraisal report writer, Sumpter T. Priddy III, Inc., 2002-2004.
Intern in collection documentation, Gunston Hall, 2002.
Cataloguer, Museum of American History, Archives Center, 2002.
Principal, The Frogeye Company-1995-present.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CEO, Atlantic Threadworks, 1998-2001.
Associate Vice President, George Washington University Medical Center, 1993-1997.
CFO, US Department of State, 1989-1993.
Assistant Secretary, US Department of the Treasury, 1988-1989.
Deputy Assistant Secretary, US Department of the Treasury, 1985-1988.
Branch Chief, Office of Management and Budget, 1984-1985.
Budget Examiner, Office of Management and Budget, 1980-1985.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, University of Maryland, 1993-1994.
Lecturer, George Washington University, 1994-1997.

PUBLICATIONS
“The Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990,” Journal of the Association of Government Accountants, 1992.
Awarded National Best Authors Award 1992.
 

TRAINING
Ms. Kent’s background comprises training in art history, law, professional appraisal studies and seminars and lectures at such venerable institutions as the Smithsonian and Winterthur. Subjects covered in coursework and seminars include:
 
Introduction to Personal Property Valuation
Appraisal Standards and Practices
Appraisal Methodology: Research and Analysis
Appraisal Report Writing
American furniture, 17th through 20th centuries
Regionalism in American furniture
British and French Furniture, 17th through 19th centuries
Florentine Renaissance Decorative Arts
Tribal Carpets
American Glass
Appraising Silver
French and Russian Ceramics

Certificate in Appraisal and Connoisseurship in Fine and Decorative Arts,
the George Washington University 

TECHNICAL SEMINARS
American Society of Appraisers:
USPAP course and examination
Ethics course and examination
A Day with the IRS
 
CONNOISSEURSHIP SEMINARS
Alexandria Forum Symposia:
Decorative Arts as Signifiers of Cultural Change,  American Painted Furniture
In the Eye of the Beholder, Connoiseurship in American Decorative Arts
"In the Neatest and Newest Mode"  Decorative Arts of Colonial and Federal Maryland

American Association of Appraisers:
Study Tour of Baltimore’s Fine and Decorative Arts
Pennsylvania German Decorative Arts
French and Russian Furniture and Porcelain
Mid-Atlantic Furniture, Portraits and Works on Paper

Billingsley House Museum: Led Appraisal Fair

Corcoran College of Art and Design, the American Folk Art Museum and the Smithsonian Associates:
Folk and Fancy, 19th Century American Painted Furniture

Dumbarton House: The China Trade and Chinese Export Porcelain
Gemological Institute of America: Ivory Identification
Museum of the Shenandoah:Tour of the Fine and Decorative Arts Collections
National American Glass Club:  Sections: Frederick Carder, Rublof on Paperweights, Fakes and Frauds,
Charles Lotton

Smithsonian Associates:
All About Silver
Oriental Carpets
 
Tuscaloosa Decorative Arts Forum:
Tiffany, Bronzes, Southern Art, Furniture, & Decorative Arts
(October 2007)

Washington Regional Appraiser’s Forum:
American Furniture of the Gilded Age
Victorian Styles Explained and Demystified
Wood Identification

Winterthur Conference on Ceramics: Chinese Export Porcelain
 
LECTURES
Washington Decorative Arts Forum:
When a Clock is a Window on the Past: The Story of the Plumsteds’ Peter Stretch Tall Clocks “Solid and Permanent Grandeur”: The Design Roots of American Classical Furniture
Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York
Something Not Expected: Colonial Furniture of Southern Maine
 
MEMBERSHIPS
Jill Kent is a member of the Alexandria Association, the American Association of Museums, the Corning Museum of Glass, Smithsonian Resident Associates Program, the Washington Decorative Arts Forum, the Washington Regional Appraiser's Forum, and Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. She is a member of the National American Glass Club, the Paperweight Collector's Association and the Wedgwood Society. Ms. Kent is active in the International Society of Appraisers and serves as Chair of the Membership Committee of the National Capital Area Chapter. She is also a member of the D.C. Bar Association.