GREATER NASHVILLE ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS
NAMES NEW OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS FOR 2010
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Dec. 4, 2009) – Lucy Smith has been elected president of the Greater Nashville Association of Realtors for 2010. Smith, a Realtor with Fridrich & Clark Realty, was sworn in Friday, Dec. 4, along with other GNAR officers. Her one-year term will begin on Jan. 1, 2010.
Officers serving with Smith for 2010 include, Alice Walker (The Wilson Group), President-Elect; Marshall Karr (Karr Investment Company) Vice President; Price Lechleiter (Zeitlin & Company, Realtors), Vice President; Kendra Cooke (Crye-Leike, Inc., Realtors), Secretary/Treasurer; and Mike Nichols (Zeitlin In Town), Immediate Past President.
Smith has been in the real estate industry for 10 years and is a member of both the Tennessee Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors. She currently serves on the residential forms committee for TAR. Smith has also served on the board of directors for the Nashville Ballet for past 15 years.
“Lucy is a great asset to our organization and I look forward to seeing GNAR continue to thrive under her leadership,” said Mike Nichols, 2009 GNAR president. “2009 certainly saw some challenges for the real estate industry, but the Greater Nashville market has shown some encouraging signs of improvement recently. It will be good to see our organization and the industry continue to strengthen and improve in the coming year.”
“It’s a great honor, and very humbling, to represent such an outstanding group of real estate professionals and lead GNAR into the new decade,” Smith said. “There have been many changes in our industry during the economic shifts of the past two years and there may be many more in the coming year. The current data provides reason to believe that the Greater Nashville real estate market it both stabilizing and strengthening. With our professional development, continuing education and many other programs and services, GNAR is positioned and prepared to help our members succeed in the new market conditions and we look forward to doing just that.”
GNAR members also elected new directors to rotating three-year terms from 2010 to 2012. Those elected include, Mary Sue Dietrich (Worth Properties), Cindy Stanton Fey (Crye-Leike REALTORS), Barry Owen (Keller Williams Realty) and Brian Taylor (Zeitlin & Co., REALTORS).
Those continuing their service on the GNAR Board of Directors include, John Brittle (French Christianson Patterson & Associates), Lori Caste (RE/MAX Elite) and Tom Williams (Crye-Leike, Inc. Realtors) who are finishing their second year of service. Directors finishing their first year of service include, Denise Beard (Crye-Leike, Inc., Realtors), Mark Deutschmann (Village Real Estate Services), Allen Huggins (BrokerSouth Real Estate Partners) and Hagan Stone (Pilkerton Realtors).
Tom Miller (Coldwell Banker Commercial Professionals) will serve a one-year term as the 2010 chair of GNAR’s commercial committee, replacing Bill Hawkins of The Charles Hawkins Coimpany. Richard Courtney (Fridrich & Clark Realty) will begin a two-year term as GNAR’s representative on the RealTracs (Middle Tennessee Regional Multiple Listing Service) Board of Directors, and on the GNAR board, as well. He replaces Tommy Patterson (French Christianson Patterson & Assoc.) who served two 2-year terms in that role.
Betty Lou Alsobrooks (RE/MAX Real Estate Center) finished her year of service as representative from the Dickson Chapter of GNAR and will be replaced by Alan Ragan (Ragan's Five Rivers Realty & Auct.).
Those completing their terms of service on the GNAR board of directors include, Susan Dale (Prudential Woodmont Realty Group), Sharon Kipp (RE/Max Elite) and Mandy Wachtler (Pilkerton Realtors).
In addition to the installment of 2010 officers, at the same meeting GNAR kicked off its Habitat for Humanity project for next year. The association will help fund and build a 14th Habitat Home in Nashville. GNAR’s Dickson Chapter also helped fund and build a Habitat home in Dickson this year and plans to do so again in 2010.
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