Jane Berger, FAPLD
Gerry Crouch, FAPLD
Judy De Pue, FAPLD
Judy Nauseef, FAPLD
Tina Nyce, FAPLD
Deanna Pillarelli, FAPLD
Samuel Salsbury, FAPLD
Bobbie Schwartz, FAPLD
Sabrena Schweyer, FAPLD
Donna Swansen, FAPLD
Robin Williams, FAPLD
Honors & Awards
Darrell Morrison
Professor of Landscape Architecture at University of Wisconsin and Honorary Chairman of Wild Ones Natural Landscapers, Darrell is one of the nation’s most distinguished native landscape designers and educators. His landscape work includes several of our most admired native landscapes, including the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Storm King Art Center, Old Stone Mill landscape at New York Botanical Garden, Utah Botanical Center in Kaysville, Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Native Plants Garden at University of Wisconsin.
Bernard Trainor (2015)
Nancy Goslee Power (2014)
Anthony Archer‐Wills (2013)
Topher Delaney (2012)
Piet Oudolf (2010, awarded in 2011)
Isabelle Greene (2009)
C. Colston Burrell (2008)
James van Sweden (2007)
Julie Moir Messervy (2005, awarded in 2006)
John Brookes (2004)
Gregory M. Pierceall (2003)
W. Gary Smith (2002)
Wolfgang Oehme (2001)
Gary Rateway
Robin Williams, APLD
A.E. Bye
Peggy Connors, APLD
Donna Swansen, APLD
Linda Middleton, APLD, California Chapter
Linda, current president of the California Chapter, is generous in the time she devotes to APLD and has served in various positions with the California chapter and districts. She led the merger of four local districts into one Bay Area District and has demonstrated amazing energy in promoting and increasing the offerings of APLD membership benefits.
Cheri Stringer, APLD, Colorado Chapter
An APLD International award-winning designer, Cheri established the Colorado chapter and helped to guide it into the dynamic chapter it is today. She was integral in developing the chapter guidebook and devoted herself to its formatting and graphics.
Patricia St. John, APLD (2016)
Barbara Simon, APLD (2016)
Thomas Wilhelm, APLD (2016)
Carol Palansky (2015)
Maria von Brincken, APLD (2015)
Bill Einhorn, APLD (2014)
Barbara Hilty, APLD (2014)
Pamela Berstler (2014)
Paul Connolly, APLD (2013)
Mary Fisher, APLD (2013)
Amelia B. Lima, APLD (2013)
Jock Lewendon, APLD (2012)
Katherine Stokes-Shafer, APLD (2012)
Sharon Gibson (2012)
Vanessa Gardner Nagel, APLD, NCIDQ
Vanessa advocates tirelessly on behalf of landscape designers fighting for their rights to practice and promoting the benefit of their work. She has been involved in the Oregon chapter and served on the National APLD Board where she has been a major force on the Advocacy Committee and was instrumental in the membership level changes initiated in 2016. She is a firm supporter in the development of higher standards and raising the bar of the profession. In her work on the APLD Education Committee, she helped develop continuing education programs.
2016 – Susan Cohan, APLD
2015 – Laura Kuhn
2014 – Bobbie Schwartz, FAPLD
2013 – Judy Nauseef, FAPLD
2012 – Patricia St. John, APLD
2010 – Samuel Salsbury, FAPLD
2009 – Rhonda Smith, APLD
2008 – Deanna Pillarelli, FAPLD
2007 – Linda Engstrom, FAPLD
2006 – Tina Nyce, FAPLD
2005 – Myrna Dowsett, FAPLD
2004 – Gerry Couch, FAPLD
2003 – H. Kibbe Turner, APLD
2002 – Tim Thoelecke, Jr., APLD
2000 – John Hetrick, APLD
1999 – Samuel Swansen, Esq.
Toni Bailey
Toni is a sustainable landscape designer and consultant whose efforts through design, education, leadership and advocacy are making a difference. She contributes to APLD’s growing knowledge and promotion of sustainability through service on committees, updating of the website’s sustainability page, completion of a soils guide and recruitment of APLD members to get involved. She proposed and shepherded to adoption APLD’s first environmental sustainability policy.
2016 – G3 Green Gardens Group
2015 – Salsbury-Schweyer, Inc. (Samuel Salsbury and Sabrena Schweyer)
2014 – Garth Conrad