Judy Marks, Hon. AIA

Associate Director
National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities

Judy is Associate Director of the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF), the nation’s premier source of current, comprehensive information on planning, designing, funding, building, and maintaining safe, healthy, high-performance schools. She manages NCEF’s website content and design, providing continuously updated information to NCEF’s 5,000 daily visitors. She promotes the Clearinghouse through presentations at conferences and workshops across the country and participation in school facilities-related committees and advisory boards. She is an active participant in the Building Education Success Together (BEST) initiative, a collaborative working to improve urban school facilities. She serves on the board of directors of the National School Plant Management Association, participates in the Association of School Business Officials’ School Facilities Management Committee, and works closely with the AIA Committee on Architecture for Education and the American Architectural Foundation’s Great Schools by Design initiative. Judy is the author of The Educational Facilities Laboratories (EFL): a History, published in 2009.