The National Association of Realtors (NAR)recently installed new leadership at the 2020 Realtors Conference & Expo.
Charlie Oppler, CEO of New Jersey-based Prominent Properties Sotheby’s International Realty, was installed as 2021 president of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) this week during the 2020 Realtors Conference and Expo.
Oppler was NAR’s 2020 president-elect and 2019 first vice president. He has been a Realtor since 1981. Oppler holds the At Home with Diversity certification from NAR and has chaired both the Realtor Party Coordinating and RPAC Trustees committees. He also served as vice president on NAR’s Leadership Team in 2015 and as REALTOR Party Director in 2017.
Oppler was president of the New Jersey Association of Realtors in 2004 and the following year represented New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania as NAR’s Region 2 vice president.
The other leaders are:
Leslie Rouda Smith is the 2021 NAR president-elect. A broker associate at Dave Perry-Miller and Associates in Dallas, Rouda Smith specializes in residential and ranch and country real estate alongside her husband, Brian, and their children, all of whom are Realtors. She has been a Realtor for 35 years and has served on NAR’s Board of Directors since 2009, including several years on the executive committee.
Kenny Parcell is NAR’s 2021 first vice president. He has been a Realtor for 22 years and is broker-owner of Equity Real Estate in Utah. Parcell served as NAR’s vice president of Government Affairs in 2018 and as its 2016 vice president for Region 11, which encompasses Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
Nancy Lane is NAR’s 2021 treasurer. A Realtor for more than two decades, she is principal broker at Lane-Harkins Commercial Real Estate LLC in Flowood, Miss., specializing in commercial brokerage.
Tommy Choi is NAR’s 2021 vice president of association affairs. He has been a Realtor for 22 years and is co-founder and owner of Weinberg Choi Residential at Keller Williams-Lincoln Park in Chicago. In 2019, Choi became the first Korean-American president in the Chicago Association of Realtors’ 135 year-history, and he was named its 2020 Realtor of the Year this August.
Leigh Brown is NAR’s 2021 vice president of advocacy. A Realtor for 20 years, she is broker-owner of One Community Real Estate in Concord, N.C.
Vince Malta is NAR’s 2021 immediate past president. A broker at Malta and Co., Inc., in San Francisco, he was NAR’s 2020 president, 2019 president-elect, its 2018 first vice president and has testified before Congress multiple times on the association’s behalf. Malta has served on NAR’s Board of Directors since 2002 and was the association’s 2011 vice president of government affairs. In 2006, he was president of the California Association of Realtors and was named the state’s Realtor of the Year in 2007.