City of Johnston, Iowa
Rhonda Martin is an experienced landscape architect with a career spanning several decades. Current roles include serving as a Landscape Architect at Iowa State University and as a Johnston City Councilwoman since January 2018. Previous positions include Landscape Architect at Bob Lenc Landscaping from October 1992 to May 2007 and at Graham Landscape Architecture from May 1986 to September 1992. Rhonda Martin earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from Iowa State University between 1981 and 1986.
City of Johnston, Iowa
As the main artery of the Ames-Des Moines Cultivation Corridor, Johnston’s robust bio-tech economy features the Global Research Center for DuPont-Pioneer and an array of finance industry heavy weights including John Deere Financial, DLL, Shazam and Iowa Bankers Association. A host of workforce talent lays within the rapidly growing community of 20,000+ who collectively forms one of the highest educated and highest income earning communities in the state. Johnston’s state of the art high school, constructed in 2017, is just a part of a Johnston School District that is consistently rated among the top in the state. Additionally, the innovative Terra Lake and interconnected bike trail systems provide a stellar quality of life for active employees looking for a place to call home. Johnston’s flexible and aggressive incentive policy continues to attract new investment and talent to existing business park’s and proposed Town Center and Merle Hay Road Gateway.