Van Meter Pettit is a practicing architect in Lexington, KY, and a member and ruling elder at First Presbyterian Church. Van Meter studied art and art history at Princeton University and received a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Texas at Austin.

After stints in Senegal and Thailand, Van Meter returned to Kentucky and interned as an architect and founded a local 501-c-3 nonprofit, Town Branch Trail, Inc. Currently this public/private financed project is on track to become a $100 million 8-mile system of greenspaces and bike-pedestrian trails.

In addition to practicing architecture, Van Meter has created multiple small businesses to expand the work from design, Van Meter Pettit, Architect, LLC., to construction, Pettit Affordable Housing, LLC, and into development, V&M Developments, LLC.

Van Meter has also provided pro bono design and construction work for First Presbyterian Church, and for the Friends of Gratz Park Recovery Groups Meetinghouse, and for the Voices of Hope recovery facility, all in Lexington.