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Atlanta–Debra W. Still, CMB, president and CEO of Pulte Mortgage LLC of Englewood, Colo., has been elected as the vice chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Still recently served as chair of MBA’s Residential Board of Governors (RESBOG) and is a member of the association’s Board of Directors. As an active MBA member for more than a decade, Still has also served on MBA’s Strategic Planning Committee and was chair of the MBA Forward Task Force, as well as a member of MBA’s Loan Origination Task Force, Affordable Housing Committee and the Secondary and Capital Markets Committee. Still has…

Atlanta–Michael D. Berman, CMB, president and CEO of CWCapital in Needham, Mass., was sworn in as the 2011 Chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). As chairman, a top item on Berman’s agenda is for MBA to continue to play its leadership role in redesigning the government’s role in the secondary mortgage market. Berman is a founder and member of the Board of Managers of CWFinancial Services. He joined the CW companies in 1985. Under Berman’s direction, CWCapital first entered the national lending business in 1991. Since then, annual loan production has grown from $100 million to $2.3 billion. CWCapital…

Chicago–Cohen Financial recently appointed Joe E. Greenhaw, Jr. as executive vice president of its Loan Administration department. Along with partner and executive vice president Tim Mazzetti, and partner and executive vice president Dean Wheeler, Greenhaw will lead the strategic expansion of the firm’s asset management and special servicing business. Prior to this appointment, Greenhaw was at Prudential Asset Resources where he served as vice president for four years and was involved in the management of a $66 billion servicing portfolio comprised of balance sheet, CMBS, Fannie Mae, FHA, Freddie Mac and third-party loans. During 2010, Greenhaw was focused on Prudential’s…

Josh L. Wooldridge has joined the Bethesda office of The Bainbridge Cos. as regional development manager. He will oversee the acquisition of new multifamily real estate development opportunities throughout the Mid-Atlantic. He is also responsible for daily development operations and strategic directives in the area. Wooldridge was most recently with Trammell Crow Residential’s Mid-Atlantic division, where he helped develop a number of new luxury apartment communities in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. During his tenure, the division developed more than 5,000 luxury multifamily units in the region with a total combined capitalization of over $1 billion. He has also worked…

Washington, D.C.–The National Housing Conference (NHC) has appointed Mary Hanlon to the newly created position of Vice President of Policy and Advocacy.

Harrisburg, Pa.–Brian A. Hudson Sr., executive director and CEO of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency (PHFA), was recently elected to serve as vice president of the National Council of State Housing Agencies (NCSHA.) NCSHA is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan association that represents the affordable housing interests of housing finance agencies before the administration and Congress. Its members are the HFA’s of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, New York City, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and more than 300 of their affordable housing partners. Hudson served the council previously as secretary-treasurer. His election as vice president came…