Marilyn Jorgenson Reece

Career Among the many many projects that she supervised, her most celebrated work is the iconic interchange between the 10 and the 405 freeways in Los Angeles, California. This interchange was designed to accommodate traffic moving at high speeds, and represented the forefront of traffic engineering in its day, opening in 1964. For this work she was awarded the Governor's Design Excellence Award from Pat Brown, and in 2008, this interchange was named in her honor.

Personal life She was married to Alvin Reece, who also worked as a civil engineer for Caltrans. They had two daughters, Kirsten Reece Stahl (who became a civil engineer) and Anne Reece Bartolotti (who became an Information Technology Project Manager). Alvin died in 2015 and Kirsten died unexpectedly in 2018.

She died on May 15, 2004, in Hacienda Heights, California.