ASCE Presidency New Chapter in Engineer’s Extraordinary Life
Date Posted: July 13, 2022
Posted In: Organizations, People,
From the Illinois Business Journal: Glen Carbon resident Marsia “Marsie” Geldert-Murphey has her feet firmly planted in a profession that focuses on working from the ground up. Come this fall, she’ll be looking at it from a new perspective.
Geldert-Murphey is the newly chosen president-elect of the American Society of Civil Engineers for the 2023–2024 term, after a month-long election that closed June 1.
She will be sworn in this October as president-elect in annual convention ceremonies in Anaheim, Cal., and then in October 2023 will be sworn in as president at the convention to be held in Chicago. She will have a three-year obligation on the board, with the last year being served as past president.
Geldert-Murphey, 57, is currently chair of ASCE’s Public Policy and Practice Committee, which coordinates public policy and government relations activities affecting the civil engineering profession.
Specializing in transportation and geotechnical engineering, she is currently the regional director for Missouri and Illinois for the Lochmueller Group Inc., a Midwestern consulting firm.
The Society president serves as the chief representative and spokesperson for the group, working with ASCE’s executive director. The president chairs the Board of Direction and the Executive Committee and assists in educating and motivating members and potential members by promoting Society principles, policies and goals.
Geldert-Murphey has led an extraordinary life, with a string of professional successes — and a personal tragedy that nearly cost her life. In 2016, she was severely injured in a freak elevator incident that required many months of recovery.