Jim Amorin, MAI, SRA
PRESIDENT

Jim D. Amorin, MAI, SRA, is the 2009 president of the Appraisal Institute. As president, he presides over the organization’s Board of Directors, and serves on its Executive Committee along with the president elect, vice president and immediate past president.

Amorin has been actively involved in the Appraisal Institute in the areas of admissions, education, ethics and counseling, and serving in various chapter, regional and national leadership positions. Between 1998 and 2003, he held key offices in the Austin Chapter, including that of president in 2003. From 2004-2006 he represented Region VIII on the Board of Directors and in 2005-2006 served as chair of the national Audit Committee. Last year, as vice president, he chaired the national Finance Committee. Amorin also serves on the board of the Appraisal Institute Relief Foundation this year.

Amorin is vice president of Atrium Real Estate Services, a full-service real estate appraisal and consulting firm in Austin, Texas. He holds degrees in finance and real estate and urban land development from the University of Texas at Austin

He also belongs to the International Right of Way Association and the CCIM Institute. He also is on the board of the Green Building Finance Consortium.

Leslie P. Sellers, MAI, SRA
PRESIDENT ELECT

Leslie P. Sellers, MAI, SRA, is the 2009 president elect of the Appraisal Institute. He will become president in 2010. In his current role as president elect, he sits on the organization’s Board of Directors and serves on its Executive Committee.

Sellers has been a member of the Appraisal Institute for 30 years. From 2002 to 2007 he represented Region IX on the Board of Directors and continues to sit on the Board this year as a national officer. He also serves on the Executive Committee, along with the president, president elect and immediate past president, and chairs the national Finance Committee. Last year he headed up the Chapter-National-Regions Project Team, and was co-chair of the 75th Anniversary Project Team. He served on the national Audit Committee from 2003 to 2005, and was chair of the committee in 2004 and 2005. He was a member of the Strategic Planning Committee in 2005 and 2007. In addition, Sellers was a member of the project teams that formulated and implemented the Appraisal Institute’s current governance structure.

Sellers is an Appraisal Institute certified instructor and seminar author and has served on the Education Committee. He also has held various offices for the Volunteer State Chapter including serving as president in 1999.

Sellers resides in Clinton, Tenn., just outside Knoxville, where he is the owner of several real estate companies, offering real estate appraisals, property management, brokerage, development and investment services.

Joseph C. Magdziarz, MAI, SRA
VICE PRESIDENT

Joseph C. Magdziarz, MAI, SRA is the 2009 vice president of the Appraisal Institute. He will become the president elect in 2010 and president of the Appraisal Institute in 2011.

Magdziarz has been an active member of the Appraisal Institute for 38 years. He has served in a variety of capacities at all levels of the organization.

At the regional level, Magdziarz has served two terms as Regional Vice Chair and two terms as Region III Chair. He has also been a regional representative for many years. On the national level, Magdziarz served two terms on the Appraisal Institute’s National Board of Directors. He has served as Chair of the Education Committee for five years and has also chaired the National Audit Committee, Instructor and Faculty Committees, and Education and Publications Committees. In addition, he has served on a number of project teams. Presently, he is serving on the ADAPT (MAI demonstration report alternative) project team and the International Education and Designation project team.

Magdziarz is an approved Appraisal Institute instructor for 26 courses in the Appraisal Institute’s QE, AE, CE, and USPAP curriculums. He has also had international assignments in Naples, Italy; Istanbul, Turkey; Seoul, South Korea; and Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai, China.

R. Wayne Pugh, MAI
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

R. Wayne Pugh, MAI, Baton Rouge, La., is the Appraisal Institute’s immediate past president for 2009. As an officer, he sits on the organization’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors.

Pugh has been active in the Appraisal Institute at the national, regional and local levels of the organization for more than three decades. From 1998 until 2006 he represented the Appraisal Institute’s Region IX on the Board of Directors. He has served as a member and chair of the national Finance Committee and as chair of the national Regional Chairs Committee and the Technology Subcommittee. In addition, he was a founding director of the Appraisal Institute Relief Foundation, which was formed following the devastating Gulf Coast hurricane disasters in 2005. Pugh also is the creator of the “Cool Tools” seminar and column, the latter of which appears in the Appraisal Institute’s Valuation magazine.

Pugh is CEO and founder of R. Wayne Pugh and Company, Baton Rouge, La., a real estate consulting and appraisal firm operating since 1975. He is also CEO and founder of Real Estate Data Services, Inc., which publishes commercial real estate transfers and public records, and Software for Real Estate Professionals, a real estate software publishing firm.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Louisiana State University. He also holds the CRE designation of the Counselors of Real Estate.