Linda F. Tatum, FAICP

Linda F. Tatum, FAICP, recently retired as Assistant City Manager for the City of Long Beach, California. She served in this position after two years as Development Services Director and three years as Planning Manager for the City.

Ms. Tatum has a master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from Florida State University and more than 30 years experience as a practitioner in public and private sector planning. She has been an AICP Fellow since 2018. Linda career experience included service as the Acting Director of Economic and Community Development and Planning Manager for the City of Inglewood, where she managed redevelopment of the Forum by Madison Square Garden, LLC, and the Hollywood Park Tomorrow project, a 300-acre mixed use project that includes 3,000 residential units, 30 acres of parks, 600,000 sq. ft. of retail and the 80,000-seat Sofi football stadium and arena. Linda taught planning courses at California State Fullerton in the University Extended Education program, worked as a planning consultant, and as a planner in the cities of Culver City and Santa Ana. She  served on the California Chapter APA Board for more than 10 years as President of the California Planning Foundation; she is a Planning Accreditation Board Site Visitor, was a Board member of the APA Foundation for two terms, and served as a member of the Planning Accreditation Board Accreditation Standards Task Force in 2020. Linda is active in the California Planning Roundtable and the Planners Emeritus Network, and she serves on the Aquarium of the Pacific Board of Directors as well as the California State University Dominguez Hills’ Toro Auxiliary Partners Board of Directors. Linda was a 2015 Rose Fellow for Public Leadership in Land Use sponsored by Urban Land Institute and the National League of Cities.