Ohio Chapter History

The Ohio Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has its roots in a historic three-state chapter that included Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. As the ranks of landscape architects grew, this tri-state chapter split into three single-state chapters that are still in existence today.

Home to many national officers of ASLA, the Ohio Chapter has been a leader in the profession of landscape architecture for decades. The Ohio Chapter hosted the 1985 National ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Cincinnati, and the 1995 National ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Cleveland.

National ASLA presidents elected from the Ohio Chapter include William Behnke, FASLA of Cleveland; Robert Mortensen, FASLA of Toledo; and the late Jot Carpenter, FASLA, former Ohio State University landscape architecture department chairman. Don Leary, FASLA from the Maumee Section of the Ohio Chapter has served as ASLA national Vice-President of Finance. Other past national Vice Presidents from Ohio include Virginia Russell, FASLA of the Miami Section and Kathleen Fox, FASLA of the Buckeye Section. 

Current Fellows of the ASLA from Ohio include:

Bassett, James H.,1981

Behnke, William A., 1975

Behnke, William Lee, 2006

Bentley, John, 2008

Bonnell, Thomas H., 2001

Booth, Norman K., 1999

Breeden, J. Brooks, 2002

Cawrse, Craig, 2005

Creed, George E., 1984

Espe, Richard W., 2015

Fox, Kathleen M., 1997

Hills, Arthur W., 1999

Hiss, James E., 2004

Kinzelman, Brian, 2015

Knight, Charles L., 1995

Lasch, Mary Ann, 1998

Leary, Donald F., 2005

Manning, Christopher H., 2017

Martin, Eugenia, 2014

McKnight, Alan D., 2016

Meisner, Gary W., 1990

Mersky, Dennis J., 2010

Meyers, Richard J., 1982

Mickelson, Edwin, 2008

Myers, Keith A., 2011

Russell, Virginia Lockett, 1997

Schmalenberger, Tim, 2013

Smith, Jerry A., 2010

Walquist, Lawrence W., Jr., 2007

Zarfoss, Thomas F., 2004