Geoff Ellis

Biography

Geoff Ellis was born and raised in Ogden, UT, the descendant of some of the original pioneer settlers of the city. He was valedictorian at Ogden High School and pursued his undergraduate education in California, Utah, and Germany. He graduated from Utah State with a Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture in 1996 and is a licensed landscape architect in the state of Utah. He has specialized in parks and recreation projects, including the Ogden Valley pathways master plan, the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, and the Weber River Parkway. He served as Executive Director of Weber Pathways, a non-profit organization that builds trails in the Ogden area, and as an officer on the Bonneville Shoreline Trail Coalition and the Parley’s Trail Coalition. He has been active on the executive committee of the Utah Chapter of ASLA, serving first as Treasurer, then as President. He is currently the Utah ASLA Memorial Fund Chairman as well as the treasurer for a family philanthropic foundation. He has been a member of the LAEP Alumni Board, now called the Advancement Board, since 2004. He is the president of a local garden club and the Past President and Scholarship Chairman of the Utah Associated Garden Clubs, as well as the volunteer in charge of the gardens at a historic church in Salt Lake City.