Janet Campbell
Vice Chair Special Events,
12th Assembly District Member
Janet Campbell is part of a very large and extended family of two Swiss brothers that came into Philadelphia in 1737, as well as other ancestors who came in to this country from the early 1600's in Boston to Jamestown, Va., in the 1680's. Her family today is representative of multiple nationalities and ethnic groups, and for many years was primarily located in Western Pennsylvania.
Her family has always stood strongly on the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights - that of promoting hope, opportunities and fairness for all - and for the freedoms necessary to provide such.
Ms. Campbell spent 32 years in Atlanta, and has lived for 14 years in the Jordan Park area of San Francisco.
Ms. Campbell has practiced architecture for 30 years, half in Atlanta and the other half in San Francisco. The work has included architecture for large corporate, commercial, mixed use, medical, institutional, entertainment, hotel, residential and many other types of projects, as well as transit planning and architecture. She has held her architectural license in a number of states, presently in California, as well as a California real estate sales license.
Ms. Campbell graduated with a BS and her six-year professional Master of Architecture degree from Georgia Tech, and with a two-year MBA in Real Estate from Georgia State University, in one of two such programs nationally at that time.
Her positions have included that of Principal in her own architecture firm and President of Chantilly Properties, Inc. a real estate development firm. She was elected from the 1200-member Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Architects to the Georgia Board of the AIA for three years in a row prior to moving to San Francisco. The Georgia Board of the AIA placed her in a book of American Architects (1990) along with two other Georgians, assigned her to serve on the State Convention Committee, and to the position of Managing Editor, Architecture/Georgia.
Ms. Campbell has been awarded prizes for her architectural design work from the National Institute for Architectural Education, rendering from the American Society of Architectural Illustrators, and for her graduate studies from the Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Her work has been shown in the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Atlanta Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Area Houses and other books and publications.
In San Francisco; Dayton, Ohio; Cincinnati, Ohio; Massachusetts and in the Midwest Roofer, Ms. Campbell has been written about and heard on NBC hidden camera assisting others in the expose of a national construction products scam targeting school bond and other public funds. Locally, the SFWeekly carried a cover story on the issue, "The Fix is In", on February 26, 2003 (Peter Byrne, reporter). The same scam was detailed by the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation in its report of September, 2000, "Waste and Abuse in School Roofing Projects". Ms. Campbell's early and very intense training at large Atlanta architectural firms from internationally-known roofing consultants gave her the knowledge that helped her to identify the scam while working in San Francisco, eventually benefitting the public school systems of Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio. Her work in this area has also resulted in an affirmatory investigation by the California State Auditor, published on September 17, 2003 (Chapter 5). The discovery of the scam also resulted in her whistleblowing case, which was read into the US Congressional Record in the Los Alamos hearings (early 2003) as "a prime example of the lack of accountability of the University of California."
Today, she is in private practice, in all areas of architecture. Ms. Campbell was elected to the Committee for her second consecutive term in November, 2006. The Committee elected her to Vice Chair Special Events for the term 2007-2009.
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