Selection Committee
Rudy Bruner Award winners are selected by a six-member committee assembled anew each cycle. Each committee includes a mayor and participant from a prior award winning project along with other experts in urban design and planning, development and financing, and community engagement. Explore past selection committee members below or view a full text list here.
2019
Carol Ross Barney, FAIA
Principal Designer | Ross Barney Architects
2019
Brenda M. Breaux
Executive Director | New Orleans Redevelopment Authority
2019
Adrian Benepe
Senior Vice President | The Trust for Public Land
2019
Libby Schaaf
Mayor | City of Oakland
2019
Marc Norman
Associate Professor of Practice | University of Michigan
2019
Carol Coletta
Senior Fellow | Kresge Foundation
2017
David Lee
President | Stull and Lee Incorporated, Architects
2017
Scot Spencer
Associate Director | Annie E. Casey Foundation
2017
Knox White
Mayor | City of Greenville
2017
Kimberly Driggins
Director of Strategic Planning | City of Detroit
2017
Willett Moss
Principal | CMG Landscape Architecture
2017
Deidre Schmidt
President & CEO | CommonBond Communities
2015
Larry Kearns
Principal | Wheeler Kearns Architects
2015
James Stockard
Lecturer in Housing | Harvard Graduate School of Design
2015
Rebecca L. Flora
Sustainable Communities Practice Leader | Ecology & Environment, Inc.
2015
India Pierce Lee
Program Director | Cleveland Foundation
2013
Susan Szenasy
Editor-in-Chief | METROPOLIS
2013
Jane Werner
Executive Director | Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
2011
Jess Zimbabwe
Executive Director | Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use, Urban Land Institute
2011
Randy Gragg
Editor-in-Chief | Portland Monthly
2011
Renata Simril
Managing Director | Jones Lang LaSalle
2011
Dan Pitera
Executive Director | Detroit Collaborative Design Center
2011
Edward Uhlir
Executive Director | Millennium Park, Inc.
2011
Lisa Wong
Mayor | City of Fitchburg
2009
Mary Houghton
President and Co-founder | ShoreBank
2009
Grace La
Principal; Associate Professor of Architecture | La Dallman Architects; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2009
David N. Cicilline
Mayor | City of Providence
2009
Michael Dobbins
Professor of Practice, Department of Architecture, City and Regional Planning | Georgia Tech
2009
Jair Lynch
President, CEO | JAIR LYNCH Development Partners
2009
Martha Welborne
Managing Director | Grand Avenue Committee
2007
David Perry
CEO | Great Cities Institute
2007
Reese Fayde
CEO | Living Cities: National Community Development Initiative
2007
Robert Kroin
Chief Architect | Boston Redevelopment Authority
2007
Josephine Ramirez
Director of Planning | The Music Center
2005
Andrew Altman
CEO | Anacostia Waterfront Corporation
2005
Louise Manuel
Senior Project Manager | Local Initiatives Support Corporation
2005
Dee Walsh
Executive Director | REACH Community Development Corporation
2005
Christopher Leinberger
Founding Partner | Arcadia Land Company
2005
Maurice Cox
Asst. Professor of Architecture; City Councilor; Founding Partner; Research + Urbanism | University of Virginia; RBGC Architecture
2005
Leland Cott
Principal | Bruner/Cott & Associates
2003
Kofi Bonner
Executive Vice President, Business | Cleveland Browns
2003
Thomas Menino
Mayor | City of Boston
2003
Alicia Mazur Berg
Commissioner of Planning and Development | City of Chicago
2003
Gary Hack
Dean | Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
2003
Maurice Lim Miller
Founder and CEO | The Family Independence Initiative
2003
Gail L. Thompson
Project Director | Performing Arts Center of Greater Miami
2001
Craig Evan Barton
Dept. of Architecture; Founding Principal | University of Virginia; RBGC Associates
2001
Wellington E. Webb
Mayor | City of Denver
2001
Gail R. Shibley
Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs | United States Department of Labor
2001
John F. Bok Esq.
Foley, Hoag and Eliot LLP
2001
Allan Jacobs
Department of City and Regional Planning | University of California at Berkeley
2001
Rosanne Haggerty
Executive Director | Common Ground Community HDDC Inc.
1999
Curtis Davis
Senior Investment Officer and Director of Construction Management | John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.
1999
Rick Lowe
Founder | Project Row Houses
1999
Frieda Molina
Senior Operations Associate | Manpower Development Resources Corp.
1999
Lawrence P. Goldman
President and CEO | New Jersey Performing Arts Center
1999
Tom Murphy
Mayor | City of Pittsburgh
1999
Min Kantrowitz
President | Min Kantrowitz & Associates
1997
Susan Rice
Senior Vice President | Fleet Bank
1997
Roberta Feldman
Co-Director | City Design Center, University of Illinois
1997
Robert Curvin
Vice President for Communications | Ford Foundation
1997
Kurt L. Schmoke
Mayor | City of Baltimore
1997
Robert M. Weinberg
President | Market Place Development
1995
Susan Saegert
Professor of Psychology | Graduate School of the City University of New York
1995
F. Barton Harvey III
President and CEO | The Enterprise Foundation
1995
Alexander Tzonis
Professor of Architecture | Technical University of Delft
1995
Monsignor William J. Linder
Executive Director | New Community Corporation
1995
Norman B. Rice
Mayor | City of Seattle
1995
Sharon Sutton
Professor of Architecture | University of Michigan
1993
Denise Fairchild
Director | Local Initiative Support Corporation
1993
Robert Sommer
Director/Professor of Psychology | Center of Consumer Research, University of California at Davis
1993
Sara Bode
President | Honey Tree Learning Center
1993
Harvey Gantt
Mayor | City of Charlotte
1993
Ed McNamara
Director | Neighborhood Partnership Fund
1993
Frank Sanchis
Vice President | National Trust for Historic Preservation
1991
Gwendolyn Clemons
Director of Planning and Development | Cook County
1991
Adèle Naudé Santos
Architect | Adèle Naudé Santos Architects
1991
Vincent C. Schoemehl
Mayor | City of St. Louis
1991
Joseph McNeely
President | The Development Training Institute
1991
Lawrence Halprin
Landscape Architect | Lawrence Halprin Studio
1991
Tony Hiss
Writer | The New Yorker
1989
Mary L. Decker
Executive Director | Metropolitan Planning Council
1989
George E. Hartman Jr.
Principal | Hartman-Cox Architects
1989
Anne Whiston Spirn
Department of Landscape Architecture | University of Pennsylvania
1989
Joseph Riley
Mayor | City of Charleston
1989
David Lawrence
Senior Vice President | Gerald Hines Interests
1989
Aaron Zaretsky
Director | Grove Arcade Public Market Foundation
1987
William Whyte
American Conservation Association
1987
Vernon George
President | Hammer, Silver & George Associates
1987
Theodore Liebman
Principal | Liebman Melting Partnership