Patrick McIntyre has served as the executive director of the Tennessee Historical Commission and as Tennessee State Historic Preservation Officer since 2007. Before joining the state agency charged with preserving Tennessee’s historic places, he served nearly five years as the first executive director of the Tennessee Preservation Trust in Nashville. While at the Commission, McIntyre has emphasized the State Historic Sites program and worked for increased funding for preservation in the state. During his tenure, operating grants and maintenance funding for the sites has improved, numerous capital projects have been completed, and three new state sites have been restored and opened to the public. The Civil War Sites Preservation Fund, established in 2013, has granted nearly $5 million to date to save threatened battlefield properties across the state. In 2019, the Commission established a new historic cemetery preservation program. 

Prior to moving to Tennessee, McIntyre served as the Endangered Properties Coordinator for the Alabama Historical Commission. He has also worked as a private consultant specializing in architectural surveys and historic property nominations and also has experience in the field of archaeology.  He is a graduate of the University of Alabama with a B.A. in Anthropology, and he earned an M.A. in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi. He and his wife Ellen own a c. 1927 home in Nashville that they share with their three children.