Jeff Seabold

FAIA, NCARB, LEED AP

Jeff Seabold founded Seabold Architectural Studio in 2009 and built it into an integrated practice responsible for more than 400 projects and over $100 million in aggregate capital value across the Southeast, spanning institutional, high-acuity, commercial, and residential work. For a decade, he held both an architecture license and a Mississippi commercial general contractor license, delivering programs as Architect of Record and General Contractor on the same projects through the firm’s construction affiliate, S5 Construction.



Jeff was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2025, an honor held by roughly three percent of AIA members, recognizing national contributions to the profession. He now serves as an At-Large Director on the AIA National Board of Directors (2026-2028), sharing fiduciary governance of a 101,000-member institution with a $70 million annual budget. His national service includes the AIA AI Design Working Group, addressing artificial intelligence policy, liability, and professional standards, and he previously chaired Best Practices on the AIA Strategic Council. He is a past President of AIA Mississippi, which he led from an operating deficit to six-figure reserves.

His civic and preservation leadership includes four terms as President of the City of Jackson Historic Preservation Commission and the City’s Historic Preservation Award for Commercial Restoration. A former founding board member and two-time Chair of the Mississippi Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council, Jeff was the first architect in Mississippi to earn the LEED AP Homes designation and later helped consolidate more than 80 USGBC chapters into a unified national organization, work recognized with a Presidential Volunteer Service Award.

A graduate of Millsaps College and Mississippi State University’s School of Architecture, Jeff earned the AIA New York Douglas Haskell Award for his writing and was named to the Mississippi Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40. He lives in Jackson’s Fondren neighborhood with his son, Windsor. Away from the office he is a recovering ultra-marathoner who cooks, builds in his wood shop, and spends his best hours coaching and volunteering alongside his son.