C. Kent Conine, a home and apartment builder from Dallas, Texas, was elected as 2003 president of the 205,000-member National Assn. of Home Builders (NAHB), Washington, D.C., during the association's 59th Annual Convention and Exposition in Las Vegas, Nev.
Conine is president of Conine Residential Group, which specializes in single-family building, single-family subdivision development and multifamily development. Since 1981, he has been responsible for the construction management and development of more than 3,000 apartment units and the development of several residential communities with a total of more than 1,000 single-family lots.
"NAHB has set a number of important goals to help promote homeownership, housing affordability and rental housing opportunities in 2003. Among other items, we will work to enact a new homeownership tax credit in Congress; support creation of a secondary market for acquisition, development and construction loans in the financing arena; continue pushing for state legislation that can help resolve the liability insurance crisis; and expand our communications channels both within and beyond our federation," says Conine.
A licensed real estate broker and a building industry representative appointed by former Governor George W. Bush to the board of the Texas housing finance agency, Conine holds a degree in finance from Texas Tech University. He has been an NAHB member for more than 20 years and has served as president of his local and state homebuilders' associations and chaired a variety of NAHB committees.
Bobby Rayburn was also installed as first vice president of NAHB. The president of Rayburn and Associates in Jackson, Miss., Rayburn has more than 30 years of experience in building and developing single-family and multifamily homes. He has spearheaded many public/private partnerships to build affordable housing across his home state, and has held numerous leadership positions in homebuilder associations at the local, state, and national level.
David F. Wilson, president of Wilson Construction LLC, Ketchum, Idaho, was installed as NAHB vice president/treasurer. A single-family builder with 25 years of experience in the building industry, he has an extensive record of involvement in various leadership roles at all levels of the association.
David Pressly, president of Pressly Development Co. Inc., Statesville, N.C., was elected NAHB vice president/secretary by the association's board of directors. A homebuilder with more than 25 years experience, Pressly has an extensive record of involvement in various leadership roles at all levels of the association, including most recently his post as resolutions committee chairman.
Rounding out NAHB's leadership roster is Jerry Howard in the post of executive vice president and CEO. Howard joined NAHB as tax counsel in 1988 and previously served as senior staff VP for federal government affairs.
