Jerry Westhoff
President and Founder of J.J. Westhoff Construction Co.
Office Location: Lincoln, Nebraska
Education
- Kansas State University, Bachelors of Science, Civil Engineering, 1974
Jerry Westhoff, P.E., is president and founder of J.J. Westhoff Construction Co., which builds sanitary landfills for municipalities and private companies such as Waste Management and Waste Connections, coal combustion residue monofills for coal-fired power plants, as well as wastewater treatment plants and utilities throughout Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
Westhoff earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Kansas State University in 1974. He began his career with Continental Oil Company in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and then Denver, Colorado, as a field engineer. He next joined a construction company in Lincoln, Nebraska, as a project engineer overseeing its wastewater treatment plant division. In 1980 he founded J.J. Westhoff Construction Company.
He has served on the K-State civil engineering advisory council, is a member of the board of trustees of the KSU Foundation and is a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Westhoff and his wife, Robin, a 1975 graduate of K-State in home economics/family and child development, have two children and three grandchildren. Their daughter, Katie, is a graduate of Colorado State University and their son, Michael, is a graduate of K-State.
