National Officers and Board of Directors

Sandra K. Adomatis, SRA, of Punta Gorda, Florida, is the 2024 president of the Appraisal Institute. She serves on AI’s Executive Committee and chairs the policy-setting Board of Directors.

Adomatis is a real estate appraiser and consultant of Adomatis Appraisal Service in Punta Gorda. She is also an Appraisal Institute instructor, developer of seminars and courses, The Appraisal Journal article author, contributor to textbooks and author of “Residential Green Valuation Tools.” Additionally, she is a national spokesperson to state and federal government agencies, energy organizations, REALTOR groups, state coalitions, national and local homebuilder groups and utility companies. Adomatis contributed to the 2011 “Appraisal Institute Residential Green and Energy Efficient Addendum,” and to the 2014 “Appraisal Institute Commercial Green and Energy Efficient Addendum.” Internationally, she is also working with Canada to adopt the AI “Green and Energy Efficient Addendum” to their residential properties.

Adomatis previously served on the national Government Relations Committee (2017-20); Admissions Designation and Qualifications Committee (2013-15); and Education Committee as chair (2012), vice chair (2011-12) and member (2009-12). She also served as president of the West Coast Florida Chapter (2009), and as education liaison for the Appraisal Institute’s Region X (2006-09). She served as chair, vice chair and member of the Residential Demonstration Report Writing Committee, and currently serves on the Demonstration of Knowledge Grading Panel, with a focus on advanced residential report writing and the grading of reports completed through the 45-Hour Package (1987 - present).

She received the Swango Award in 2023, Lifetime Achievement Award and Swango Award (2020); Henry C. Entreken Lifetime Achievement Award (2019); Outstanding Service Award (2016); President’s Award (2013); Dr. William N. Kinnard Junior Award (2012); and Region X Volunteer of Distinction (2010).

Paula K. Konikoff, JD, MAI, AI-GRS of Los Angeles, is the 2024 president-elect of the Appraisal Institute. Her one-year term as president-elect will be followed by one year as president in 2025, and immediate past president in 2026. She will also serve on the Appraisal Institute’s Executive Committee and on its policy-setting Board of Directors through 2026.

Konikoff started her career in advertising and quickly moved to law. She joined the corporate department of a large firm in 1978 where her practice focused on corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. This corporate practice had her review financial statements and appraisals of both businesses and real estate. Konikoff became active in the AIREA (a predecessor organization to the Appraisal Institute) as a member of her chapter’s Admission Committee and as an instructor. She went on to the Appraisal Institute’s Standards Committee and Ethics Committee. She was also on her chapter’s board of directors. When her term on the Appraisal Standards Board ended, she was appointed to AI’s Professional Standards and Guidance Committee (then ASC), and has been a member or, more often, chair of that national committee since 2010.

Most recently, she was instrumental in the creation of the Women’s Initiative Committee and was the first chair of that committee starting in 2019. Konikoff has made presentations to AI chapters, regions and at the annual conference. She is the author of the book, “Appraisers in Arbitration,” the developer of online seminars, was on the development team for the AI-GRS qualifying education and is a reviewer of textbooks and articles submitted to The Appraisal Journal. She was also a member of the Body of Knowledge Committee. Konikoff has been honored twice with the AI President’s Award and once with the Y.T. and Louise Lee Lum Award.

Michael J. Acquaro-Mignogna, MAI, SRA, AI-GRS, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, is the 2024 vice president of the Appraisal Institute. His one-year term as vice president will be followed by one year as president-elect in 2025, president in 2026 and immediate past president in 2027. He will also serve on the Appraisal Institute’s Executive Committee and on its policy-setting Board of Directors all four years.

After studying piano for nearly two decades and graduating from University of Pennsylvania with a degree in music, a position at a mortgage brokerage firm led to an introduction to the appraisal profession, including the Appraisal Institute. Mignogna began his work as a residential appraiser in 1986 and as a commercial appraiser in 1987, leading up to the founding of his firm, Mid-Atlantic Valuation Group, Inc. Licensed as a Certified General Appraiser in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, Mignogna has given expert witness testimony to many state and U.S. courts throughout the region.

Mignogna served as 2013 President of the Philadelphia Metropolitan Chapter of the Appraisal Institute. He also served on the National Board of Directors from 2017 through 2023, where he served as Chair of the Professional Liability Insurance Program Committee and Audit Committee.

Craig Steinley, MAI, SRA, AI-GRS, AI-RRS, of Rapid City, South Dakota, is the 2024 immediate past president of the Appraisal Institute. He serves on AI’s Executive Committee and chairs the policy-setting Board of Directors.

Steinley's previous national service includes six years on the Appraisal Institute Board of Directors as a representative from Region II, both as its vice chair and chair. He served on the Audit Committee, including as chair and vice chair; on the Strategic Planning Committee; on the Professional Liability Insurance Program Committee; as Region II third director; on the Governance Structure Project Team; and on the Professional Standards and Guidance Committee. He also has served as president of the Wyoming and Western South Dakota Chapter in 2012 and 2013. He participated three years in the Leadership Development and Advisory Council conference and received a 2015 Volunteer of Distinction recognition. Craig is an education developer and instructor for the Appraisal Institute and is also an AQB-Certified USPAP Instructor.

Steinley is the principal of Steinley Real Estate Appraisals and Consulting in Rapid City, South Dakota. He has also been active in the appraiser regulatory arena since the mid-1990s, including service as the 2018 president of the Association of Appraiser Regulatory Officials. He is a graduate of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology with bachelor’s degrees in both Mathematics and Computer Science, and a minor in Electrical Engineering. He also received a master’s degree in Mathematics and worked as an assistant professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at SDSM&T for five years, where he instructed engineers and scientists of all ages.

John Udelhofen is the interim CEO of the Appraisal Institute in addition to serving as COO.

He joined AI in May 2024 as CFO with a focus on fortifying the organization’s position financially. His role then expanded to include COO where he leads AI’s service business units and is refining AI’s operating framework. In September 2024, Udelhofen took on the additional role of interim CEO as the search for a new, permanent CEO got underway.

Udelhofen has more than 25 years’ experience working with entrepreneurial startups and 19 years of corporate experience. Over the past 11 years, he provided strategic services to small- to medium-size businesses, including associations, as well as having founded multiple organizations in the Manufacturing and IT Services industries. In those capacities, he has built strategic plans, flexible business models and high-value management teams that implement and support those models efficiently.

In his role as interim CEO, his goal is to provide stability and continuity through this transition, which includes rebuilding customer service, transforming the member experience, and modernizing education.

A graduate of Loyola University and Roosevelt University in addition to holding an MBA from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, Udelhofen has been a lecturer and business professor in higher education including at St. Xavier University, College of DuPage and Aurora University. Additionally, he has been an adjunct faculty member at DeVry and Northwestern Business Colleges, teaching all accounting subjects as well as Economics and Business Math.