Ann Mullins

Ann Mullins has been a member of Aspen City Council since 2014. Previous to the Council position, Ann was on Aspen’s Historic Preservation Commission for seven years, five of those as Chair. She also served on the Aspen Modern Task Force. As part of her role as Council Member she serves on the following boards: Ruedi Power and Water Authority, Roaring Fork Transportation Authority, Colorado Municipal League Policy Committee, Colorado Association of Ski Towns, Pitkin County Noxious Weed Board, the Health and Human Services POD Board, and the Pitkin County Board of Health.

Ann has been a landscape architect for over forty years, working throughout the country on diverse projects. 
 
She graduated from Wells College, Aurora, NY, with a B.S. in mathematics. After several years of ski bumming in the West, she returned to school and earned a master’s in landscape architecture from Utah State University. She began her career at Jones & Jones in Seattle, moving to Massachusetts to work for Carol Johnson Associates in Cambridge, MA and Sasaki Associates in Watertown, MA before heading back west to Denver, where she cofounded Civitas in 1984. She left Civitas in 2004. From 2004 to 2006 Ann served as Campus Landscape Architect at University of Colorado, Boulder. Her next move took her to Aspen, where she worked for Design
Workshop before founding her own firm, wjm Design, focusing on cultural and historic landscapes.
 
Throughout her career Ann has been deeply involved in local and regional politics, advocating for environmentally sound land use, historic preservation, transportation, and energy.