Samantha (Sami) Pierson is most recently from Libby, Montana where she has served as the Library Director of the Lincoln County Public Library since 2003. The Lincoln County Library is a three-library system which provides service for a population of 18,000. Sami was also an adjunct faculty member at Flathead Valley Community College and a contract cataloger for the Montana Department of Transportation. In addition, she has served on the Montana State Records Advisory Board, and she is the recent past president of the Montana Library Association.

Sami earned a Master of Public History and Archives degree from Colorado State University and a Masters of Library and Information Sciences from the University of Southern Mississippi. She grew up in a rural area just outside of Albany, OR.