2024 Class of Fellows, Jean Senechal Biggs, FASLA, Oregon Chapter

City of Beaverton, OR
by City of Beaverton

Oregon Chapter - Category: Leadership/Management

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Oregon Chapter - Category: Leadership/Management

Jean Senechal Biggs has dedicated her career to planning, designing, and building transportation systems that work for everyone. A skilled and effective advocate for streets where walking, biking, and riding public transit are efficient and safe, Senechal Biggs spent the first 20 years of her career with the Portland Bureau of Transportation, planning, designing, and building capital projects during a time when the city evolved as a national model for livable communities. Today, Senechal Biggs leads transportation policy and planning, major capital projects, active transportation initiatives, and regional coordination for the city of Beaverton, a first-tier suburb of Portland. Through her visionary leadership and skilled management, Beaverton is rapidly emerging as a model for transforming auto-oriented suburbs to people-centered places. Senechal Biggs is a highly regarded leader within ASLA, sharing her voice and expertise on numerous committees, activities, and publications, including serving as chapter president, before becoming a trustee in 2017. She has dedicated hundreds of hours to ASLA and was recently elected ASLA Vice President of Professional Practice. Fluent in all phases of project delivery, Senechal Biggs is a respected team leader and skilled at facilitating community groups and elected officials through challenging decision-making processes. The impact of her work extends beyond the communities she serves; she generously shares her expertise at national conferences, with the National Park Service Rivers Trails and Conservation Assistance program, with rural communities, in online publications, and with peers eager to learn about Portland's renowned transportation system.