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Transferring to Kansas State after three years of study at Trinity University in San Antonio, STEPHANIE ROLLEY left her native Texas and returned to the state where she had grown up, graduating from Topeka West High School.

Her undergraduate thesis in landscape architecture offered a revitalization plan for downtown Topeka.

At graduation, Rolley returned to San Antonio and the firm with which she had been an undergraduate intern a year earlier. She then accepted a post as project manager in the planning and landscape architecture department of Carter and Burgess in Dallas before departing for graduate education in City Planning at MIT, research with the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation, and employment as a project manager and urban designer with Carr, Lynn Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Since 1988, Rolley has been a faculty member in the Kansas State University Department of Landscape Architecture with an adjunct appointment in Regional and Community Planning. In addition to heavy teaching responsibilities, she has been active in college and university service, and involved with professional and community service projects in Manhattan, Topeka, Kansas City and smaller Kansas towns.

Rolley, her husband Rod Harms and their classmate Gary Schmitz are directors of the Dallas based Civitas Development Group offering a diverse range of professional planning, development and management services.