Board Members
The Community Associations Institute Georgia Board of Directors is responsible for overseeing the chapter's operations in actively pursuing the purposes and objectives of both the national organization and the Georgia chapter. The CAI Georgia Board of Directors works closely with its Executive Director and its Committees to ensure that goals and objectives are achieved.
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President
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Kathy Dorough, Esq.
Dorough & Dorough, LLC
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Kathy K. Dorough is a 1986 graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law. She is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the DeKalb County Bar Association and the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers. Kathy began her legal career as a judicial clerk in the State Court of Fulton County. She later served as a senior staff attorney at the Georgia Court of Appeals. She is a graduate of Leadership DeKalb and was the editor of Georgia Commons for three years and has published numerous articles in that magazine. In addition to her practice at the firm, Kathy has served as a Magistrate Court Judge in DeKalb County since 1997. Kathy practices primarily in the area of community associations law. |
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Past President
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Teddy Russell
Russell Landscape Group |
Teddy Russell is the Chief Financial Officer for Russell Landscape Group. He received his BBA from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. Teddy and Russell Landscape Group are very active within CAI and other organizations including the Nashville CAI chapter. Russell Landscape Group is a Platinum Sponsor for the Georgia Chapter of CAI. Teddy has participated and chaired the golf committee for CAI, serves as a Board Member for the North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, and participates in the Legislative, Membership and Community Service committee for the BOMA organization. He is married to Courtney and they have a son, William and a daughter, Lucy. |
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President Elect
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Sandy Depa, CMCA, AMS, PCAM
Homeowner Management Services
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Sandy Depa, Vice President of Homeowner Management Services Inc., has worked in the community association management industry since 1999. Sandy has attained the PCAM designation and also holds the CMCA and AMS designations as a Community Association Manager. Prior to 1999, Sandy served as an HOA Board Member for five years, holding the positions of Treasurer, Vice President, and Secretary. Sandy has been actively involved with CAI since 2000. She co-chaired the Tennis Committee for two years and has also served on the Education Committee and Fundraising Committee. Sandy has been actively involved in several other organizations, including ALTA and the PTA and has a strong financial background in accounting and in the banking industry. |
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Treasurer
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Scott Douglas
National Cooperative Bank
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Scott entered lending in Cleveland, Ohio in 1977 as a mortgage loan officer after a brief stint in the Merchant Marines in 1969 and college. He moved to Atlanta from Los Angeles in 1982, working first as a National Sales Manager for Johnstown Mortgage, then joining Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1984 where he was part of the team that first invented and marketed Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS). Next, he joined Morgan Keegan as head of the CMBS and Asset Backed Desk. In 1998, Scott founded Community Funding Corporation, representing commercial read estate lenders and the National Cooperative Bank as an exclusive agent in the marketing of Community Association Financing. He worked closely with many members of CAI in the creation of the Community Association Lending Program and funded the first Homeowner Association loan made in Georgia in 1999 as reported in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Scott has been active in CAI since 2002. He chaired the Public Relations Committee and has served on the Legislative Action and Program Committees. He was also the 2005 winner of the CAI-Georgia Leadership Award.
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Vice President
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John Lueder, Esq.
The Lueder Law Firm, LLC
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John Lueder is the founding member of The Lueder Law Firm, LLC located in Alpharetta. The firm specializes exclusively in community association law and currently employs seven attorneys and ten collection paralegals. John was licensed to practice law in Georgia in 1995. Most of John’s over twelve years of practice has been concentrated on community association law and litigation. John has also served on the board of directors for his last three homeowners associations, including serving as president and treasurer. From this experience, and from his experience as an attorney practicing community association law, John is in a unique position to provide both legal and practical advice to the firm’s community association clients. John earned his Bachelor Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992 and his Juris Doctorate Degree from Georgia State University College of Law in 1995. |
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Director
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Dan Ross
Sutton Pines Condominium Association
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Dan Ross is currently Santa at NorthPoint Mall and has held that position since 1997. Being Santa at NorthPoint has been a highlight in his life and he has helped increased the mall traffic considerably while attracting new families to the mall and being a positive force for the mall all year long. At present, he sees about 25,000 children each Christmas season. Dan is President of the Sutton Pines Condominium Association and has held that elected position for 10 years. During his tenure, he has helped to improve the outlook for all residents by decreasing crime in the area and listening to the resident’s needs. He led the charge for a major property renovation in 2000 which resulted in the property values doubling. He also saw the need to inform residents through the creation and distribution of a newsletter, The Sutton Times, which his wife Lolly, is the Editor. Dan also had a long and successful career with Pitney Bowes, working in the areas of sales and sales management for the company and retired from Pitney Bowes in 1996.
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