Kristin Gisleson Palmer, a former New Orleans City Council member with decades of experience restoring blighted properties, has been named executive director of the Preservation Resource Center.

For Palmer, 58, taking over at the helm of the 51-year-old nonprofit organization , which works to preserve and revitalize historic neighborhoods across the city, is something of a homecoming, she said Tuesday.

One of her first jobs out of college in the early 1990s was with the PRC. She later returned to the organization for several years before running for the City Council, where she served two non-sequential terms.

“I feel like I am coming full circle,” said Palmer, a New Orleans native. “I love the PRC so much. This is something I have always wanted to do.”

Palmer succeeds Danielle del So

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