Elizabeth Chu Richter

[4] She is the CEO of the firm Richter Architects, whose projects include a "living history" section of the National Museum of the Pacific War, the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve headquarters, highway rest stops, the Solomon P. Ortiz National Center, and the Mustang Island Episcopal Conference Center.

[5] Richter was born in Nanjing, China and spent her early childhood in Hong Kong.

In 1963 when she was thirteen, her mother, Irene Chu, took her and her five siblings to Dallas, Texas.

Richter studied architecture at the University of Texas at Austin and received her bachelor's degree in 1974.

[7] Chu's father died due to illness while Richter was young.