2007 REALTOR® Salesperson of the Year - Louise Potter

Louise Potter is a sales associate with Keller Williams Greater Columbus. She began her career with HER in 1989 and took to this business like a duck to water. She has enjoyed the challenges and changes of the industry as well as the many personalities.

After a successful sales career, in 1992, she became King Thompson's training director and later managed their Pickerington, Powell and Westerville offices. In 2002, she rejoined HER, where she became manager their Metro and German Village offices.

For the Columbus Board of REALTORS®, Louise is currently serving her second term on the Board of Directors, has twice chaired the Standard Forms Committee, cochaired CORPAC and is current chair of the CORPAC Governing Board, vice chair of the Foundation Fundraising Committee and a member of the Foundation Fund Governing Board. She also serves as an Ohio Association of REALTORS® (OAR) Director and on the 2005 and current 2007 OAR Convention committees.

In the past, she has chaired OAR's Professional Development Committee.

Louise is approved to teach OAR's GRI 100 and 300 classes, the Ohio Division of Real Estate's Ethics, ECR Market Analysis, and Computer Basics courses and the 10-hour post licensing classes for Hondros College.

She has chaired the Homeless Families Foundation Reverse raffle for the Bexley-Eastmoor-Berwick Realty Association and has co-chaired the Women's Council of REALTORS® (WCR) Ways and Means Committee. Prior to becoming a REALTOR®, Louise professionally rode horses, teaching, training and selling, and owned a tack shop, In addition she was a Paralegal. She is also an avid tennis player and golfer, an ACE Certified Personal Trainer, Certified SpinningTM instructor and a former coach for the Worthington Special Olympics Power LiftingTeam.

Louise holds a B.A. in History with a minor in Journalism from Muskingum College; a two-year Certified Legal Assistance Program certificate from Capital University Law School and is a Bexley High School graduate. She also holds the Graduate, REALTOR® Institute (GRI) designation.

Louise resides in Bexley and has a daughter, Abby, who is close by in Grandview. She has also lived in Charleston, South Carolina and spent part of her childhood in Sea Island and St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Louise says, "I'm both honored and humbled to receive this award. This recognition by my peers is so special. My real estate colleagues have become like a second family to me and this validates what I have done over the years. Anything is possible!"