Lynn M. Ross, AICP
has been appointed to the newly created position of chief operating officer for the National Housing Conference and the Center for Housing Policy. Ross will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the two related organizations. She joined NHC and the Center in 2007 as the director of state and local initiatives. Prior to that, she was manager of the American Planning Association's Planning Advisory Service.

Martin Lewis
has been apointed as chief executive officer of the South African Council for Planners (SACPLAN). SACPLAN is a statutory council of nominated members appointed by the Minister of Land Affairs to regulate the planning profession in South Africa.

Diane Woodend Jones, AICP
has been elected chairman of the board of Lea+Elliott by the firm's board of directors. She is a principal with Lea+Elliott, an employee-owned engineering, architecture, and planning firm, and has served on its board of directors for many years. Woodend Jones developed and currently leads the firm's strategic planning initiative and has served in the management of the operations of the central region. She has been with Lea+Elliott since 1989.

Geeti Silwal, AICP, has been promoted to senior associate with Perkins+Will San Francisco. As a senior urban designer, Silwal helped produce work that includes the plan for a sustainable new community on Treasure Island and a re-imagining of Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and Civic Center. Her work includes projects in Texas, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, and France. A current project is in the country of Oman, planning and designing a regional plan for the Al-Batinah area, which is evolving from a series of small coastal villages into an urbanized region.

Ellen Greenberg, AICP
has joined Arup's San Francisco office as an associate principal, leading the firm's newly integrated planning practice that includes transportation planning. Greenberg holds master's degrees in city planning and civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. In 25 years of practice, she gained expertise in comprehensive planning, corridor revitalization, form-based coding, and transit oriented development.

Timothy O. Borich
has been elected president-elect of the National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals (NACDEP), a nonprofit organization created to assist those who do research on community development programs. Borich is director of the Iowa State University Extension Community and Economic Development and associate dean for outreach in the ISU College of Design.

Alan Reynolds, AICP
chief executive officer at WilsonMiller, was recently selected to become a member of the Florida Council of 100, a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization formed in 1961 to provide advice on key Florida issues from a business perspective. The council was the first of its kind in the U.S. and works closely with the state's governor, chief justice, legislature, and private organizations to achieve quality of life improvements for the people of Florida.

APA Life Member Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi were the recipients of this year's Anne d'Harnoncourt Award for Artistic Excellence presented by the Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia. This recognition is the council's highest award and is reserved for an individual or group whose body of work has brought positive recognition to the Philadelphia region. Venturi and Scott Brown are founders and two of the principles of Venturi Scott Brown and Associates (VSBA). They received the award at the council's annual awards luncheon in April 2010.

Matthew S. Taylor, AICP, has been named chief executive officer of Real Estate Research Consultants, an economic advisory firm in Orlando, Florida. Taylor joined the firm in January 2005 and has served as the firm's chief operating officer for the past two years. He serves as advisor to the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority and NASA, among other commercial airport and federal agency clients. He has also been deeply involved in healthcare development projects and other complex real estate planning assignments.

Martin P. Lewis
has co-authored an article in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education that discusses a model developed to proactively address global workforce and higher education challenges. The model builds upon five stages of career development: education; training; learning simulation; work-integrated learning; and career placement, advancement, and transition.

Frederick "Fritz" Steiner
has been named one of the Top 25 Newsmakers of 2009 by the Engineering News-Record. Steiner, dean of the school of architecture at the University of Texas at Austin is credited with leading the multidisciplinary team that produced the benchmarks and guidelines for SITES, a voluntary rating system designed to encourage development, design, construction and operation of eco-friendly landscapes.

Jim Paulmann, FAICP, headed an Urban Land Institute advisory team that provided technical assistance on the redevelopment of the former Treasure Island Naval Base on San Francisco Bay. Paulmann, a principal and corporate leader with WilsonMiller, headed several teams that reviewed the project's development plans and strategies. The group's efforts focused on transportation phasing and financing, renewable energy, open space programming, funding, and soft infrastructure and governance.