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2024 - 2025 Executive Committee

President
 

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Sherry Wenrich

CMG Home Loans
Orlando, FL
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Immediate Past President
 

Yvette Clermont, CMB, AMP

Yvette Clermont, CMB, AMP

Novus Home Mortgage
Sarasota, FL
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Executive Director
 

Denisha George

Denisha George

Mortgage Bankers Association of Florida
1661 Aaron Brenner Drive, Suite 201
Memphis, TN 38120
901-321-6740
mbaf@mbaf.org

President-Elect
 

Robert Villalon

Robert Villalon

National MI
Plantation, FL
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Second Vice President & Local Chapter Representative

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Roy George

MOR Lending

President
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Vice President
 

Timothy Bazell

Timothy Bazell

South State Bank
Osprey, FL
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Legislative Representative
 

Eric Prutsman

Eric Prutsman

Prutsman & Associates, P.A.
P.O. Box 10448
Tallahassee, FL 32302-2448
850-894-6601
eric@prutsmanlaw.com

Secretary/Treasurer
 

Bob Niemi, CMB

Bob Niemi, CMB

Weiner Brodsky Kider PC
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Executive Director
 

Caitlin Guerra

Caitlin Guerra

Mortgage Bankers Association of Florida
1661 Aaron Brenner Drive, Suite 201
Memphis, TN 38120
901-321-6740 mbaf@mbaf.org

2024 - 2025 Directors

Term Ends June 2026
 

Christie Buff, AMP

Term Ends June 2025
 

Suha Zehl

Z Technology Solution
Suha@ztechnologysolutions.com

Term Ends June 2026
 

Dylan Rodriguez

Optimal Blue a Division of Black Knight
Dylan.Rodriguez@bkfs.com

Term Ends June 2025
 

Dustin Owen, CMB

Waterstone Mortgage Corp
dowen@waterstonemortgage.com

Term Ends June 2026
 

Nate Morris

Novus Home Mortgage
nmorris@novushomemortgage.com

Term Ends June 2025
 

Dawn Henshaw

Term Ends June 2025
 

Shaun Williams, CMB

Term Ends June 2025
 

Michelle Mendez

Directors Emeritus

Margie Fletcher

(elected 2005)

Chuck Ivy

(elected 2006)

Georges Lussier

(elected 2010)

Past MBAF Presidents

(Showing the company each president was with at the time of their presidency.)

2023/2024

YVETTE CLERMONT, CMB, AMP

Novus Home Mortgage

 

2022/2023

DOUG LEEVER

We Florida Financial

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2021/2022

MICHELLE KNOEBEL, CMB

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2020/2021

SHERRY GALLITZ, CMB

Union Home Mortgage

 

2019/2020

MICHAEL AZZARELLO, CMB

Caliber Home Loans

 

2018/2019

MATTHEW GOLDMAN, CLO, CRO

Atlantic Home Loans

 

2017/2018

PAT GAVER

Capital City Bank

 

2016/2017

KEVIN STRICKLAND, AMP

SunTrust Mortgage

 

2015/2016

SANDY GARCIA

American BancShares Mortgage

 

2014/2015

JAY RALSTIN

Waterstone Mortgage

 

2013-2014

ALEX CASTELLANOS BB&T

 

2012-2013

DAN HARRISON BB&T

 

2011-2012

MICHAEL CULBERTSON

JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.

 

2010-2011

JOHN CHLUDZENSKI

Mortgage Support Services

 

2009-2010

HOWARD NELSON BB&T

 

2008-2009

SCOTT MAXWELL

SunTrust Mortgage

 

2007-2008

TIMOTHY ALLEN, CMB

SunTrust Mortgage

 

2006-2007

J. GREGORY HALLAM

Shamrock Bank of Florida

 

2005-2006

ELLEN NIEWOLD

First American Title Insurance Company

2004-2005

RAY CASTELLANOS

GMAC Mortgage Corp.

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2003-2004

LARRY KELLY

United Guaranty Residential Insurance Co.

 

2002-2003

ROSS BENNETT, CMB

Thomas Mortgage

 

2001-2002

KRISTINA HOLMEN-MOHR, CMB

Wells Fargo Home Mortgage

 

2000-2001

ALAN ROBBINS

Metro Bank

 

1998-2000

DARRELL SCHWARTZ

GMAC Mortgage Corp.

 

June-August 1998

HOWARD NELSON

Prosperity Bank

 

1997-1998

DAVID F. GINN

Florida HomeLoan Corp.

 

1996-1997

ROBERT J. "BOB" JACOBS

Homeside Lending, Inc.

 

1995-1996

JUDY TAYLOR

GMAC Mortgage Corp. /PA

 

1994-1995

DONNELL SMITH, CMB

Market Street Mortgage

 

1993-1994

WILLIAM M. "MICKEY" ROSS

Barnett Mortgage Company

 

1992-1993

THOMAS C. PALMER

BancBoston Mortgage Corp.

 

1991-1992

DANNY D. DUNN

Commonwealth-United Mortgage

 

1990-1991

ROBERT P. SOBZACK

Barnett Bank/SW FL

 

1989-1990

RICHARD D. HUNNICUTT

Mid-State Fed. Savings Bank

 

1988-1989

W. D. "CHIC" ACOSTA

Barnett Bank/Palm Bch. Cty.

 

1987-1988

RANDALL C. JOHNSON, CMB

Equitable Mtg. Resources

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1986-1987

M. VIC LEININGER

Stockton, Whatley, Davin & Co.

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1985-1986

WALTER J. RITCHIE, JR.

Southern Home Savings Bank

 

1984-1985

W. A. McGRIFF III

Alliance Mtg. Co.

 

1983-1984

RICHARD P. O’CONNOR

Southeast Mtg. Co.

 

1982-1983

ROBERT M. CARLSON

Stockton, Whatley, Davin & Co.

 

1981-1982

DONALD C. MOORE

ComBanks Mtg. Co.

 

1980-1981

JAMES R. GRIFFITHS

Barnett Mtg. Co

 

1979-1980

ROGER W. CONNER III

Sunbank Mtg. Co.

 

1978-1979

JESS S. LAWHORN, CMB

Southeast Mtg. Co.

 

1977-1978

ALONZO FRANK GREEN

McKinney-Green, Inc.

1976-1977

CARL E. NIMINCHT, JR.

Sunbank Mtg. Co.

 

1975-1976

RICHARD N. ROBINSON

Fidelity Southern Mtg. Co.

 

1974-1975

BRUCE C. McDONALD

Stockton, Whatley, Davin & Co.

 

1973-1974

CHESTER R. BEAR, JR, CMB

Southeast Mtg. Co.

 

1972-1973

ROBERT L. LEGG

North American Mtg. Corp.

 

1971-1972

W. RICHARD WYNN II

Stockton, Whatley, Davin & Co.

 

1970-1971

ANDREW E. YAROS

Tucker & Branham, Inc.

 

1969-1970

JOE A BURNETT, JR.

The Commonwealth Corp

1968-1969

ALAN B. IVES

ATICO Fin. Corp.

 

1967-1968

DWIGHT E. McCORMICK

Glenn E. McCormick Co., Inc.

 

1966-1967

E. W. CROW

ATICO Fin. Corp.

 

1965-1966

BERNARD W. SHEILL, JR.

The Commonwealth Corp.

 

1964-1965

RICHARD B. CATON

Stockton, Whatley, Davin & Co.

 

1963-1964

D. RICHARD MEAD, JR., CMB

D. R. Mead & Co.

 

1962-1963

FRED W. CROZIER

Bisbee Baldwin Corp.

 

1961-1962

L. K. HORN, CMB

Lon Worth Crow Co.

 

1960-1961

LEESON A. HOGARTH

B. D. Cole, Inc.

 

1959-1960

W. HERBERT SPEIR

The Commander Corp.

 

1958-1959

J. WALTER TUCKER, JR.

Tucker & Branham, Inc.

 

1957-1958

HOWARD J. MURPHY

ATICO Fin. Corp.

 

1956-1957

FRANK W. REED

The First Nat'l. Bank at Orlando

 

1955-1956

LON WORTH CROW, JR., CMB

Lon Worth Crow Co.

 

1954-1955

R. T. TUCKER

Tucker & Branham, Inc.

 

1953-1954

FRANK E. DENTON

American Title Ins. Co.

 

1952-1953

JOHN A. GILLILAND

Knight, Orr & Co., Inc.

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