Jenny Darlington-Person is the Executive Director of Music in the Mountains. Since taking on this role in late 2018, she increased the organization's average annual foundation and government grant giving nearly 400%, raising over $700,000 in under 4 years. Due to her executive leadership skills, especially during the pandemic, she earned the Association of California Symphony Orchestras’ 2022 Executive Leadership Award. Jenny was also selected to attend and completed a program called Essentials in Orchestra Management at the Juilliard School in New York City in the summer of 2022. In February 2023, she graduated from the Center for Nonprofit Leadership’s Executive Director Academy.
Jenny was born and raised in Nevada County where she currently lives with her husband and four pets. She has been attending MIM concerts since she was a child in the 1980s and became a member of the Chorus in 2006. In 2000, she earned her juris doctorate with honors, Order of the Coif from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies and Legal Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to working for MIM, she practiced law for seventeen years in Nevada, Placer, and surrounding counties. She also taught law school for seven years working at both McGeorge Law School and Lincoln Law School teaching courses in business law; research and writing; and appellate and oral advocacy.