[7] A contemporary of Di Lucas,[1] Menzies was in the second cohort of women to graduate in landscape architecture from Lincoln.

Environmental quality on the New Zealand dairy farm, supervised by Simon Swaffield and Neil Gow.

[9] Menzies spent the first part of her career at the Wellington City Council but she has also worked at the Ministry for the Environment and lectured at Unitec Institute of Technology.

[14][15] In the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the environment.

[17] In 2018, Menzies was the first woman to be accorded Kāhui Whetū status by Ngā Aho, the network of Māori design professionals, for "her contribution both nationally and internationally, of understanding the unique cultural values of the heritage of Māori and Pasifika design".