Bill MillikenCCIM, CIPS

Bill was appointed to the National Association of Realtors' (NAR) board of directors this year as the board's commercial representative. At the board's meeting in May, 2016, he was also elected an NAR Regional Vice-President/2017. He is serving a 3-year term on the board of the CCIM Institute. Bill returned in December from an 8-day real estate trade mission to Taiwan, which was led by the president of the CCIM Institute.

He served as the 100th president of the Michigan Realtors (www.mirealtors.com) in 2013. His career in real estate was launched in Ann Arbor in 1987. Milliken Realty, which he formed in 1996, was named a Best of Michigan Business in 2008.

Previously, he worked in Washington, D.C. for NASA and the U.S. Dept. of Justice. He was a delegate on CCIM's trade mission to China in 2006. He has been named REALTOR-of-the-Year by the Ann Arbor Area Board and the Commercial Board of REALTORS, respectively. Bill currently serves on the boards New Detroit (www.newdetroit.org) and the Washtenaw Community College Foundation; was president of the Commercial Board of REALTORS (2006); a director of Republic Bancorp, and; board chair of the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce.

He graduated from Colorado College, has traveled to all 50 states and is a licensed private pilot.