Partner, ROMA Design Group, San Francisco, CA;

Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA), 1965-1997; President, AIA, East Bay Chapter, 1975; James J. Amis was elected President of the East Bay Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 1975. (See Progressive Architecture, vol. 56, p. 37)

Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA), 1997;

Amis passed away from liver cancer in Pasadena, CA, in 11/1997. (See "Urban Spoon," magazine of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), vol. 57, 1998.)