Prominent broker elected to national board

Gary Ralston has been elected to the prestigious CCIM Institute's national board of directors for the coming year.

Ralston is a managing partner of Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Ralston Dantzler Realty LLC, a Polk County-based brokerage firm that specializes in Interstate 4 corridor commercial properties.

He was elected to the board of the institute, one of the commercial real estate industry's leading educational and membership groups, during its annual conference in Atlanta held Oct. 24-Oct. 28. The board works as the governing body for the institute, whose designation is held by just 6% of all commercial real estate agents nationwide.

In addition to his CCIM membership, Ralston also has earned designations from the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He is also a Specialist in Real Estate Securities; a Certified Property Manager; a Counselor of Real Estate; a Certified Leasing Specialist; and Certified Development, Design and Construction Professional, among other designations.

Ralston also is an adjunct faculty member at Florida Southern College and the University of Florida, a Hoyt Fellow and a member of the regional economic information network of the Jacksonville branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.