Rick is the Founding Director of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian where he oversaw the development and construction of the Museum. While Rick was not trained as a museum curator or director, he spent 20 years as a lawyer after graduating from college and law school, but he proved himself skillful in his new field and after the hugely successful launch of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian the Autry was eager to snap him up. Now the CEO of the Autry National Center of the American West, Rick finds himself living in Los Angeles but still thinking fondly of his days in Albuquerque, Muskogee and Mowglis.