Marilyn Jordan Taylor

Marilyn Jordan Taylor (born 1949) is an American architect, who has been a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill since the early 1980s and served as its first female chairman.

Marilyn Jordan was born on March 31, 1949, in Montezuma, Iowa, and moved with her family to Washington, D.C., when she was ten years old.

[2] Jordan finished her master's degree in Architecture at UC Berkeley in 1974 and joined Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's (SOM) Washington, DC Office.

[9] Taylor has served on the advisory board for Amtrak's Northeast Corridor expansion project,[10] the Delaware River Waterfront Planning and Development Board, the Partnership for New York City and as the President of the New York City Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

[11] She was awarded with an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from the Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies in 2014 for her interdisciplinary approach to urban planning and contributions to responsible development.