A professional city planner since the late 1950s, Marge Macris has worked for regions as diverse as Chicago, Marin County, and Berkeley. In the early 1970s, she guided the preparation of the Marin County, California, Countywide Plan, which pioneered the use of environmental principles in general plans. She was a founder of the American Planning Association (APA) Planning and Women Division. In 1991 she received the APA Distinguished Service Award and was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners in 2000. She served as an officer in the APA, California Planning Roundtable, California Planning Foundation, and Sierra Club. She is the author of “It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time,” in Planners on Planning, 1996, and of The Planning Commissioner and the California Dream, Solano Press, 2004. She is now Chair of Community Marin, and Co-Chair of the Marin Environmental Housing Collaborative. She has run the Boston Marathon three times, and has climbed Mt. Whitney.