Robert J. Ramseur, Jr., of Raleigh, has been elected Chair of the Real Estate Commission and Anna Gregory Wagoner, of Winston-Salem, Vice Chair, for the term beginning August 1, 2017, announced Miriam J. Baer, Executive Director.
Ramseur is a partner at the law firm of Ragsdale Liggett PLLC and chair of its real estate department. His practice focuses on residential and commercial real estate transactions, real estate financing and development, tax and entity structuring, lease negotiations and drafting, and real estate litigation.
Licensed to practice law in North Carolina in 1996, Ramseur is licensed to practice in all state courts, the District Court of the United States (Eastern District of North Carolina), and the U.S. Supreme Court.
He is past president of the Wake County Real Property Lawyers Association, past co-chair of the Joint Forms Task Force for the North Carolina Bar Association and North Carolina Association of REALTORS®, and past president of the Real Estate Lawyers Association of North Carolina, Inc., a trade association with over 350 members.
A native of Raleigh, Ramseur graduated with honors from Needham B. Broughton High School and received a Bachelor of Arts in History, cum laude, from Wake Forest University in 1992 and a law degree from Wake Forest in 1995.
Active in civic and charitable activities, he is the president of Band Together, past president of the Rotary Club of the Capital City and chair of the Board of Directors of Raleigh’s Theatre In The Park and is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Triangle Area YMCA’s Camp Sea Gull and Camp Seafarer. Ramseur received the 2017 Citizen Lawyer Award from the North Carolina Bar Association.
Wagoner is a shareholder with the law firm of Blanco Tackabery & Matamoros, P.A. in Winston-Salem and practices in the areas of commercial real estate and renewable energy.
Active in the practice of real estate law for approximately 17 years, Ms. Wagoner was formerly associated as an attorney with Investors Title Insurance Company, of Chapel Hill, SpectraSite Communications, Inc., of Cary, and Isaacson, Isaacson, Sheridan, Fountain & Leftwich, LLP, of Greensboro.
Wagoner is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, Forsyth County Bar Association, Piedmont Triad Commercial Real Estate Women, and the North Carolina Land Title Association.
She is a graduate of Wake Forest University with a BA in Psychology and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law.
This article came from the October 2017-Vol48-2 edition of the bulletin.