Odette Lueck, FASID
Chair
Lueck is owner and principal designer of Odette Lueck Interiors. Her projects include both residential and commercial installations. Lueck has worked as facilitator and director of training for Honeywell in their Anso Fiber division, instructor for education-works, inc., and as an adjunct professor of interior design at the Maryland Institute College of Art.  She also developed the CEU standard for ASID and was instrumental in the successful licensing efforts in Maryland and Washington, D.C. She has been chair of many ASID committees, task forces and councils as well as a competition judge in numerous national design awards and is past President of the ASID Washington Metro Chapter and a past member of the ASID Board of Directors.

Nila R. Leiserowitz, FASID, Associate AIA
Chair-elect

Leiserowitz is managing director for Gensler in Santa Monica, Calif. She joined Gensler in 1996 and was charged with leading the workplace practice in Santa Monica and rebuilding the practice in one of the company’s oldest offices. She expanded Gensler’s corporate client base to include a variety of business ranging from the entertainment industry to the financial sector. Gensler’s clients include Disney, Yahoo!, DreamWorks SKG, Herbalife, WPP, Universal Consumer Products Group, EnCana, Deloitte & Touche, Western Asset Management and Foothill Capital.

In 1989, Leiserowitz joined Perkins+Will as a vice president, leading the Chicago interiors practice and after a year, led the interiors practice firmwide. After being with Perkins+Will for two years, Leiserowitz was asked to serve on the company board—the first interior designer and woman on the board in the firm’s 65-year history. Prior to that, she started her own firm Wheeler Hilderbrandt, with Gary Wheeler, FASID, FIIDA, Associate AIA. The firm won a number of AIA, IBD and ASID design awards.

Penny Bonda, FASID, LEED AP

Bonda works in the field of environmental communications and is a prominent writer and lecturer. As the eco editor of Interior Design magazine, she is a monthly contributor to their online resource, “The Green Zone.” Bonda is the founding chair of the U.S. Green Building Council committee for LEED Commercial Interiors. She is chair of the ASID Sustainable Design Council, a former Society president and an ASID fellow. Bonda also serves on the Council for Interior Design Accreditation Standards Council, Antron Sustainability Advisory Council, Greenguard Advisory Council and USGBC’s LEED training faculty. She authored Creating Sustainable Interiors, a monograph for NCIDQ, and has written a book on sustainable design to be published by John Wiley & Sons.

Judy Pickett, FASID

Pickett is principal and founder of Design Lines, Ltd., in Raleigh, N.C. A longtime leader in ASID, Pickett was honored with an ASID fellowship in 2005. She was a member of the ASID Board of Directors, chair of the ASID Education Council and co-chair of the ASID Communications and Knowledge Resources Advisory Council. Pickett also has worn a variety of leadership hats for the ASID Carolinas Chapter, including serving as president. An advocate for professional interior design legislation, she was chair of the ASID Legislative Task Force, chair of the National Legislative Coalition for Interior Design and president of the North Carolina State Legislative Coalition.

Outside of ASID, Pickett currently is a member of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation Evaluation Committee and is its site visitor chair. She is a member of the Meredith College Advisory Board and a member of the Existing Building Committee of the North Carolina Building Code Council. Pickett received her bachelor’s degree in interior design from Florida State University.

Barbara Schlattman, FASID

Schlattman is principal of Houston-based Barbara Schlattman Interiors. She has designed commercial and residential interiors for more than 30 years. Schlattman has received numerous design awards and her projects have been featured in numerous publications, including Contemporary Stone Designs, Kitchens and Baths, Ladies’ Home Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She is a sought-after public speaker on interior design issues. Schlattman is an ASID fellow. She is a former member of the Society’s board of directors, leadership task force committee and national development council, and is a past president of the ASID Texas Gulf Coast Chapter.

James P. Cramer, Hon. AIA, Hon. IIDA, CAE

Cramer is the Chairman and Principal of the Greenway Group, Inc.  He is also an acclaimed lecturer, author of four books and editor of DesignIntelligence and Almanac of Architecture & Design.  Along with being the founding co-chairman of the Washington, DC based think tank, The Design Futures Council, Cramer has served as CEO of The American Institute of Architects and as the former President and CEO of the American Architectural Foundation and publisher of Architecture magazine.  He was also the co-founder of the National Design Council and a Director of the national Society of Architectural Historians. 

A recipient of over eighty awards and honors, he received the University of Minnesota’s Distinguished Service Medal and received honors from the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, the International Interior Design Association and others.  Cramer is a Richard Upjohn Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and a Fellow of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (WBSI).

Dr. Theodore C. Landsmark, M.E.D., J.D., PH.D.

Landsmark has been president of Boston Architectural College since 1997. Dr. Landsmark holds degrees in law and environmental design from Yale University, and a doctorate in American Studies from Boston University. He has taught at M.I.T. and UMass Boston, and has been an administrator at Harvard University and the Massachusetts College of Art.  He practiced architectural law, and worked as Special Assistant to the Mayor of Boston.
He chaired in 2004 Mayor Thomas Menino’s Task Force on School Assignment, and has served as National Chair of the AIA Committee on Diversity since 2003. In 2006, he received the Whitney Young Jr. Award from the AIA for his work to promote diversity in the design profession. In 2005, he was elected President-Elect of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and took office as ACSA President in 2006.
He is a Trustee Emeritus of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and serves on the Board for the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Boston Fund for the Arts, the North Bennet Street School, the Pro-Arts Consortium, and the Boston Society of Architects. He is also affiliated with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Peabody Essex Museum, The Artists Foundation, and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. In addition, Ted administered extensive efforts working as a consultant to projects involving 19th Century African American material culture, derived from his dissertation research at Boston University.
He is a regular contributor to the Maine Antique Digest, and has lectured nationally on architectural education, diversity in the design profession, community organizing, youth violence, and 19th Century African American material culture.  He is also a member of the Real Estate Advisory Committee through Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

John Newland

Newland is Vice President of Architecture and Design Sales for Herman Miller Inc., Industry Partner of ASID.  John holds degrees in Environmental Design from Miami University and in Interior Design from the University of Cincinnati. He practiced interior design with dealerships and well respected architecture and interior design firms around the country before his transition to the manufacturing world.  John was the first individual from a manufacturer asked to serve on the board of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA). 

Sonet is a partner in the New York law firm of Levy, Sonet & Siegel, LLP. In addition to serving as the legal counsel to ASID, his firm represents numerous interior designers, industry sources, product designers, architects and fashion designers. Sonet previously was a faculty member at the New York School of Interior Design, where he taught business and legal practices. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Northwestern University in Chicago, and his juris doctorate from the Boston University School of Law.