Inducted: 2015

Mulberry Senior High Graduate,

Benjamin Stevenson is currently the executive director of the Lakeland Housing Authority and has over 26 years of experience in land use, transportation and urban planning. In 1993, he became the first black male urban planning supervisor in the history of the City of Tampa. During the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort in New Orleans, he was directly responsible for supervising the $500 million community redevelopment effort at the St. Bernard public housing community, now known as Columbia Parc of the Bayou District. It was voted the best affordable housing project in the country, received several national awards and was even visited by President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and philanthropist Warren Buffett.