Cheryl L. McAfee

Cheryl Lynn McAfee, , (born c. 1958), is an American architect. She is the CEO of McAfee, an architecture firm founded by her father Charles F. McAfee. In 1990, she was the first woman to receive an architecture license in the state of Kansas. McAfee was named one of the "Top Women Architects" by Ebony magazine in 1995.

Early life and education Cheryl Lynn McAfee was born in c. 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, to parents Gloria Myrth Winston, a public school teacher and principal, One of her two sisters, Charyl Frena McAfee-Duncan, is also an architect and works at McAfee.

She graduated with a B.Arch in 1979 from Kansas State University; and with a master of architecture degree in 1981 from Harvard University.

Career She started working at McAfee (formerly Charles F. McAfee Architects, Engineers, and Planners firm) in 1981. In 1990, she was the first women to receive an architecture license in the state of Kansas. In 2004, McAfee was the chair of the design commission in the city of Atlanta.

In 2023, McAfee and her team at McAfee redesigned and modernized six library branches of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System.