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Leah Whitfield, C.M., ACE

Leah serves as the President of APG and is a Project Manager and Senior Aviation Planner. Her planning and project management experience includes master plans, system planning, regional transportation plans, business planning, airport siting studies, land use studies, PFC applications, DBE programs, minimum standards, snow removal equipment acquisition, airfield design, gate analysis, and security projects. Leah’s broad range of planning studies includes commercial service airports such as Anchorage International, Fairbanks International, Cheyenne Regional, and Casper/Natrona International and planning analysis for hub airports across the country. She is currently managing on-call planning contracts at Denver International Airport and for the Port of Portland. Her experience also includes both large and small general aviation airports such as Wittman Regional Airport, Olympia Regional, Chehalis-Centralia, Lake Hood, Tacoma Narrows, Steamboat Springs, Choteau, and small rural gravel airstrips. Leah is known for breaking down technical information and effectively communicating to a broad range of stakeholders. Leah leads public outreach in nearly every planning study she manages. Leah’s experience at a variety of airports as a consultant and as airport staff gives a broad understanding of the impact of growth and the importance of proper planning for that growth.

Leah is currently the chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Aviation System Planning AV020. She is actively involved in a variety of aviation organizations such as AAAE, ACC, and state airport organizations.