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2020 Place Maker Award
Frederic C. Rich
Frederic C.Rich, an attorney, is of counsel to Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where he was a partner for many years. An author and committed environmentalist, he is a vice-chairman of the Land Trust Alliance, a national land-conservation group; a longtime director and former board chairman of Scenic Hudson, a fifty-year-old organization dedicated to land conservation and environmental quality in the Hudson River Valley; and the chairman of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. As a place maker, he has designed a large landscape garden with views of the Hudson River in Garrison, New York. He is also the creator of an organic garden overlooking New York City’s Battery on a rooftop adjacent to his apartment.