Paula Horrigan, of Cornell University, received her nomination, in Knowledge, from the New York Upstate Chapter. Horrigan moves place-making and community-engaged design to the forefront of landscape architecture education, research and practice. Her profound commitment is to the public purposes of landscape architecture and higher education. She is a recognized leader in strengthening the rigor and value of community engagement and service to today's design education, research and practice. She led the Erasing Boundaries Project and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture's service-learning and community engagement track, as well as recently published Community Matters: Service-Learning in Engaged Design and Planning. Horrigan has inspired hundreds of students to forge professional careers that empower communities with critical needs so those communities can actualize their own futures. Throughout her career, she has advocated the relevance of community-engaged design education, research and practice within landscape architecture's ever-evolving sphere of influence.

David P. Howerton, ASLA
Hart Howerton
San Francisco

David Howerton, of Hart Howerton, received his nomination, in Works, from the Northern California Chapter. Howerton creates innovative, sustainable environments that honor and preserve the natural landscape. His commitment to land projects exemplifies how strategic, long-term thinking can sustain the natural and built environment over time. He is a leading advocate of interdisciplinary thinking, crossing professional boundaries, and working collaboratively to create complete environments that integrate planning, architecture and interior design professionals. Across a wide range of project types in diverse professional arenas, his is a consistent leadership in land stewardship and the ability to create vibrant, authentic communities. His groundbreaking work on many environmentally sound, conservation-based, enduring communities has earned national acclaim. He allows the history and natural setting of places to guide his designs, resulting in communities with genuinely authentic identities of which residents and guests are proud.

Jie Hu, ASLA
Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning & Design Institute
Beijing, China

Jie Hu, of Beijing Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning & Design Institute, received his nomination, in Works, from the Council of Fellows Executive Committee. Jie Hu's achievements in creating beautiful, functional, sustainable landscapes within China's rapid development is supported by a design approach that integrates Western principles of science and engineering with traditional Chinese philosophies of art, literature and garden design. He strives to expand landscape architecture's design scope, and his work exemplifies interdisciplinary collaboration, integrating function, art, science and culture with sustainable strategies for resource conservation. Rehabilitation of landscapes and natural resources degraded and polluted by uncontrolled development, industry and neglect, and mitigation of the effects of rapid urban growth are key aspects of his approach to planning and design. His work has addressed head-on China's environmental challenges. He is committed to education and research in office design, as demonstrated by the professional development programs in his office.

Brian Kinzelman, ASLA
MKSK
Columbus, Ohio

Brian Kinzelman, of MKSK, received his nomination, in Leadership/Management, from the Ohio Chapter. Kinzelman has made significant, sustained contributions to the advancement of the role of landscape architects and the recognition of the practice of landscape architecture through his noteworthy urban design projects and the promotion of prime project management landscape architect roles. His career provides a clear model for how to define the value of expert design in public projects. He has led more than 1,000 civic and public works that encompass urban revitalization, transportation and riverfront development. He advocates change in conventional thinking about the role of landscape architects to place them at the forefront of multidisciplinary public works teams. His firm of five offices produces a body of public and civic work that is widely recognized for planning and design excellence. His commitment to education is essential to the profession's future.

Christopher LaGuardia, ASLA
LaGuardia Design Landscape Architecture
Water Mill, New York

Christopher LaGuardia, of LaGuardia Design Landscape Architecture, received his nomination, in Works, from the New York Chapter. For 30 years, LaGuardia has committed to the advancement of landscape architecture on the eastern end of Long Island. In his practice, he integrates the needs and habitat of people with the natural landscape in clear and understandable terms. Over the years, his award-winning work has garnered local and national recognition. He lectures widely on the social and natural influence of his design, and the profession's value overall. Most recently, his ongoing relationship with the Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, D.C., has brought nationwide attention to his work. His sensitivity to site planning integrates buildings and structures into the landscape. His landscape grading and plant selection and placement have resulted in many successful collaborations with some of the world's best known architects and artists.

James Lee, ASLA
SWA Group
San Francisco

James Lee, of SWA Group, received his nomination, in Works, from the Northern California Chapter. Lee's design is steeped in the inherent qualities of site location and the eccentric characteristic aspirations of the project's special program. He makes the unique qualities of a site obvious and celebrated and seeks clarity of intention in landscapes through visual and physical expression. Articulations of architectural expression create qualities of space seeped in immersive place-making that give people special spatial experiences. His goal is to apply the appropriate amount of design to a site to make it obvious and intuitive. His close collaborations with allied professionals have meant that he is brought on to projects early to find the right application of a landscape. His work blurs divides between inside and out, horizontal and vertical, and landscape and architecture.

Pamela J. Linn, ASLA
Waukesha County Department of Parks and Land Use
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Pamela Linn, of Waukesha County Department of Parks and Land Use, received her nomination, in Service, from the Wisconsin Chapter. Linn leads by example both personally and professionally. Her positive impact on future practitioners, policy makers, allied professionals, colleagues and the community is apparent through her significant contributions to the greater good of the profession in Wisconsin. She also raises the voice of the landscape architect nationally. Her passion for landscape architecture drives her diversified volunteerism. She fights to ensure funding for public open spaces, a motivation that led her into public practice, where she implements policies she actively campaigns for every day. Linn's vision and unwavering enthusiasm for parks and preservation, as well as her dedication to the public have made a lasting impact. She also endeavors to make the profession enticing for K-12 students and visible to clients and policymakers.

John S. Loomis, ASLA
SWA Group
Sausalito, California

John Loomis, of SWA Group, received his nomination, in Works, from the Northern California Chapter. The influential 38-year career of Loomis is nationally and internationally recognized for his significant contributions to the built realm. His remarkable range of accomplishments includes dozens of design awards, leadership, mentoring of young professionals and design collaboration with professional colleagues, as well as service to the community. His private and public works include mixed-use urban developments, corporate campuses, retirement communities, themed attractions and green architecture. A principal at SWA Group for 25 years, Loomis' expertise and knowledge focus on design realization through technical expertise and the craft of landscape architecture strengthening the big idea behind each endeavor. Whereas innovation and design realize vision, innovation and craft realize design, and, toward that end, Loomis is both an innovator and a maker of the highest order.

Jody L. Martinez, ASLA
City of Saint Paul, Parks and Recreation Department
St. Paul, Minnesota

Jody Martinez, of the City of Saint Paul Parks and Recreation Department, received her nomination, in Leadership/Management, from the Minnesota Chapter. Martinez is a trusted, respected and highly regarded leader. She has been instrumental in the improvement of the quality of St. Paul communities through bold planning initiatives and skillfully designed and executed parks, open space, parkways, trails and other essential public realms. Her leadership and project results drive multi-departmental teams as she manages numerous major initiatives throughout the city. She has proven the value that landscape architecture brings to quality planning and design results, and most St. Paul city departments request her division's landscape architectural services. She believes strongly that a well-designed, integrated and meaningful public environment is essential to a city's positive growth and prosperity, and she further believes that landscape architects can lead these efforts.