Linda Komlos provides invaluable administrative and accounting support to Community Design Center staff. Originally from New York City, she moved to northwest Arkansas in 1984. After her daughter completed a degree at the University of Arkansas, it was Linda’s turn: she graduated magna cum laude in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in geography and a minor in business administration. She completed a master’s degree in geography in 2008. She won numerous awards during her academic career, notably the Outstanding Geography Undergraduate Student Award in 2003 and 2004, the Fulbright College Senior Scholar in 2004 and the Outstanding Physical Geographer of the Year in 2008. She has more than thirty years of accounting and corporate paralegal experience.

The UA’s Staff Senate recognized her in May 2010 as an Employee of the Third Quarter.