Clay Phillips got his BS in Landscape Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona in 1976 and earned his license (#2060) a couple years after starting a career at California State Parks in 1977. At the end of 2014, he retired after working 37 years for the Department. He spent the first part of his career doing general plans, the next part designing and implementing park construction and research projects (he is the founding manager of the Southern Service Center), and the last part in park operations, at the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve and as the Superintendent for San Diego Coast District. Now that he’s retired from California State Parks, Clay is always attentive to ways he can support those causes he deeply cares for.
Justin Anderson