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William Frederick Guman, ASLA, APA, RLA (born July 19, 1956 in Troy, New York) is a former Colorado Springs, CO City Councilman and City Planning Commissioner. He was raised on Long Island and attended high school at Commack High School (Commack, NY). He is the son of William J. Guman, PhD, and Elsie K. Guman.

Guman is a 1976 graduate of the State University of New York (Farmingdale) and a 1978 graduate of Colorado State University (Fort Collins). He relocated to Denver and Colorado Springs shortly after graduation from CSU.

In 1982, Guman founded William Guman & Associates, Ltd. in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a professional company for landscape architecture, urban design, and community planning. He was the incorporator of the firm in 1983 and remains as the company’s president and CEO.

In 1983, Guman was appointed to the City of Colorado Springs Urban Forestry Board, where he served for eight years (three years as chair person). He was appointed by the City Council to the City Planning Commission in 1992, and served in that capacity until his election as the District 2 representative to the Colorado Springs City Council in April 1993. During his eight year tenure as an elected council member, Guman concurrently served as a member to the Colorado Springs Utility Board, Professional Design Review Board, and was a graduate of the Colorado Municipal League Elected Leader’s Program. He was appointed to the Pikes Peak Regional Building Commission in 1997 and served as its chair person for two years. Guman was sworn in as Acting Mayor of the City of Colorado Springs in March, 2001. His service as an elected representative to the Colorado Springs City Council was ended by term limits in April 2001.

Guman is a 2002 graduate of the Republican Leadership Program. After an unsuccessful run for the El Paso County (Colorado) Board of County Commissioners in 2002, Guman concentrated his efforts on furthering his landscape architectural practice and becoming proactive in the Via de Cristo movement. He was elected and served as Assistant Lay Director and subsequently as Lay Director to the Colorado Via de Cristo secretariat from 2003-2006. In October 2006 he successfully applied for a charter with the National Lutheran Secretariat and founded Lutheran Via de Cristo of the Rockies which encompasses Colorado, Northern New Mexico, and Southern Wyoming. He presently serves as that movement’s Lay Director. Guman is also a commissioned Stephen Minister and presently serves as president to the Bethel Lutheran Church (Colorado Springs) congregational council.

Guman currently resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado with his wife, Cathy. They have two grown children. He is a licensed landscape architect in the State of Colorado and is a registered member of the Council of Landscape Architects Review Board (CLARB), American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and the American Planning Association (APA).