Susan Jacobson, FASLA

Susan Jacobson, FASLA, PLA, is the Landscape Architect and Head of Site Planning & Design for The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL. With forty years of experience as a landscape architect in the Chicago area, she has worked in both private and public practice. Susan holds a BLA from the University of Illinois, and is licensed. A full member in the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) since 1982, she was elected Fellow in 1995, and received the President’s medal in 2017. Susan has served as the president of the Illinois Chapter and the National ASLA, and is active on the National ASLA Honors and Awards, the Chapter Success Institute and the Constitution and Bylaws committees. Susan also received the U of I Department of Landscape Architecture Alumni Medal in 2019 for outstanding support of the department and the profession.