2025 Celebrating Leadership In Development Excellence (CLIDE) Awards Jury
Collete English Dixon
Collete English Dixon has more than 30 years of experience in investment management with a focus on commercial real estate investing. Prior to her current role at Roosevelt University, she was Executive Director - Transactions for PGIM Real Estate (formerly known as PREI), a business unit of Prudential Financial, and co-leader of PREI’s national investment dispositions program. Collete’s experience also includes commercial property development and asset management.
In her current role, Dixon is the Executive Director of the Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate at Roosevelt University where she is manages all aspects of the undergraduate real estate major and minor and the MSRE/MBA-RE degree and graduate certificate programs. She is the first African-American woman leader of a higher-education real estate program in the US and a member of the administrative team for the Heller College of Business.
She is a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Nominating Committee for Marcus and Millichap, Inc, a member of the Advisory Board for Waterton Associates, LLC, and a member of the Board of Trustees of UBS’ Trumbull Property Fund. Collete is also a member of the Board of Directors for Community Investment Corporation-Chicago and the Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation, in addition to being a ULI Global Governing Trustee and member of the Lewis Center for Sustainability. She is a Past President of CREW Network, a Past Chair of the CREW Network Foundation, and a Past President of CREW Chicago.
Mick Cornett
Mick Cornett is a businessman and former four-term mayor of Oklahoma City. In 2018, he was named to Fortune Magazine’s list of the The 50 Greatest Leaders in the World.
In 2024 he was named by the Urban Land Institute as the Canizaro/Klingbeil Chair for Urban Development.
Cornett spent 20 years as a television sportscaster/news anchor/sports play-by-play broadcaster. Following the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 he diverted his attention to public service and served as a full-time college professor before winning a seat on the Oklahoma City Council in 2001.
In 2004 he won the city-wide election for mayor and thus began a series of record-setting political victories. His re-election percentage of 87% in 2006 is the highest in city history. During his tenure, Oklahoma City experienced an economic renaissance that is still in progress. He based his philosophies on "creating a city where highly educated young people will choose to live."
In January of 2012 he was Michele Obama’s personal guest at the State of the Union Address in Washington D.C.
Cornett is best known for helping to bring an NBA franchise to Oklahoma City and for addressing the community’s shortcomings in areas of health and wellness. His leadership to pass the transformational MAPS 3 initiative has spurred an enormous amount of private investment into the city. Over 80,000 new jobs were created in the city while he was mayor.
Newsweek called him one of The 5 Most Innovative Mayors in America. The Europe-based World Mayor Organization named him the second-best Mayor in the world. And Governing magazine proclaimed him a Public Official of the Year. He was the President of the United States Conference of Mayors in 2016-17.
In 2018, he chose not to run for a fifth term as mayor.
Mick has a journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from New York University.
Bill Fulton
With decades of experience, Bill Fulton, FAICP, is one of America’s major thought leaders on land use, economic development, and urban planning. In 2009, he was named one of Planetizen’s Top 100 Urban Thinkers.
Bill is a Senior Advisor to PFM Management and Budgeting Consulting, a Fellow at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley, and a Professor of Practice in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University.
In California, Bill served as mayor of Ventura, California, and Director of Planning and Economic Development for the City of San Diego. In Texas, he was director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University for eight years. In Washington, D.C., he served as Vice President of Policy and Implementation at the advocacy group Smart Growth America.
Bill is also the author of eight books, including The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl (with Peter Calthorpe) and The Texas Triangle (with Henry Cisneros and others). His latest book, Place and Prosperity: How Cities Help Us Connect And Innovate, was published by Island Press in 2022.
Bill holds master’s degrees in mass communication from American University and urban planning from UCLA. He is also a trained meeting and process facilitator.
Emma West
Emma West is a partner at Bousfields Inc., a leading planning and urban design consulting firm based in Toronto and Hamilton. With over 25 years of experience in urban and environmental planning for public and private sector clients, Emma has had a broad range of experience in city-building projects in downtown, suburban and rural locations at scales ranging from regional plans to site-specific entitlements. In addition to residential and mixed-use developments, Emma has had a focus on entitlements for colleges, universities and health care projects as well as large-scale master plans for mixed income neighborhoods with significant amounts of affordable housing.
As a committed and enthusiastic urbanist, she is a Registered Professional Planner and a member of the Canadian Institute of Planners. Emma is also an active member of the Urban Land Institute, having held local and international leadership roles.
She is currently Chair of the Women’s Leadership Initiative’s Americas Executive Committee, a member of the Americas Executive Committee, Vice Chair of the ULI Americas DEI committee, a Global Governing Trustee, Chair of the ULI Toronto Advisory Board, and a member of the Urban Revitalization Council.
Dawn Jourdan
Dawn Jourdan is the Dean of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She previously served as Executive Associate Dean for the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University. In that capacity, she served as Dean of Faculty, Research and Graduate Programs. She held the rank of professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. Before Texas A&M, Dawn was an associate professor and Director of the Division of Regional and City Planning at the University of Oklahoma (2012-2016). Dawn held a joint appointment between the Colleges of Design, Construction, and Planning and the Levin College of Law from 2008-2012. She began her academic career in 2003 at Texas A&M University.
Dawn studies issues at the intersection of urban planning and law. Her book (with co-author Eric Strauss) Planning for Wicked Problems: A Planner’s Guide to Land Use Law, is used to train undergraduate and graduate students who pursue degrees in urban planning in applicable legal principles. She has taught courses in land use law, growth management, affordable housing and planning history and theory, among others. An interdisciplinary scholar, Dawn was awarded the Harold Adams Interdisciplinary Professorship in Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning by Texas A&M University.
Dawn is well-known for her work in the field of on-premise sign regulation. With an interdisciplinary group of scholars, she crafted a model sign code for the International Sign Association (ISA). She founded the Academic Advisory Council for Signage Research and Education and served as the editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding. She currently serves as the chair of the Planners Outreach Subcommittee for ISA.
Dawn earned a Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from Florida State University in 2004, a joint degree in law and urban planning from the University of Kansas in 2000, and a B.S. in Social Services and Theatre Arts from Bradley University in 1996.
