Members of the Illinois REALTORS® Board of Directors pose before their first meeting of the year at the Public Policy meetings in East Peoria on Thursday.Photo: Jon Broadbooks.

Members of the 2017 Illinois REALTORS® Board of Directors met for the first meeting of the year in East Peoria on Monday.

The 28-member board directs the 44,000-plus member organizations efforts, and meets several times a year.

Members of the board include:

  • Officers: President, Doug Carpenter; President-elect, Matt Difanis; Treasurer, Dan Wagner; and Immediate Past President, Mike Drews.
  • Past president positions (And the year they were Illinois REALTORS® president): Patrick Dalessandro, 1997; Sheryl Grider Whitehurst, 2011; Michael Oldenettel, 2013;  and Kay Wirth, 2008.
  • Board members: Ron Abrams, Michael Buscher, Phil Chiles, Andrew Cook, Robert Eby, Jim Kinney, Jeff Kolbus, David Levin, Nick Libert, Susan Miller, Max Mitchell, Ed Neaves, Michael Onorato, Michael Parent, Wayne Paprocki, Debbie Prodehl, Ginger Sreenan, Catherine Terpstra, Rebecca Thomson and Vicky Turner.