Jill Morelli FAIA

Jill Morelli FAIA (BArch Iowa State 1971) came to Seattle in 2005 to assume the newly created position of Director of Facilities at the University of Washington School of Medicine. 
Previously she had worked in traditional architectural practice in Tulsa and Denver.  In Denver she made the shift to client work with a development/ownership company, restoring historic commercial properties with alternative uses.  In 1990 she and her family moved to Broward County, Florida, where she worked for Dade County Public Schools (Miami) managing their renewable contracts, three union shops, and initiating the first (non-governmental) Job Order Contracting contract in the United States. 
In 1992, she became the first female University Architect at The Ohio State University, where she served for 13 years.  During that time she became a Fellow of the AIA based on her state and national reach and her commitment to good design and strong professional principles.  In addition to managing a building program at OSU (more than $1B), she oversaw the development of the first campus master plan in over 30 years.  Her colleagues consider this a planning model to emulate, based on its balance of theoretical principles and their application to practical day-to-day decision-making.  She also advocated for and managed the first Design Review Board at that campus.
2025:  "Architectural Ancestry:  A Presentation on Urban House History"