Ohio Political Coordinator: Heather Dunn
Our “Political Coordinator Spotlight” shines on Heather Dunn, who serves as the profession’s State Political Coordinator for Rep. Susan Manchester (R-84). House District 84 encompasses Mercer, as well as portions of Auglaize, Darke and Shelby Counties. 2020 marks Heather’s second year working with Rep. Manchester as an SPC. Licensed since 2012, Heather focuses primarily on residential, investment, and property management transactions in the Central Ohio and Midwestern Ohio markets.
Since becoming licensed, Heather has served at all three levels of our industry. In Columbus, she served as CORPAC Co-Chair, Columbus Young Professionals Network (YPN) Co-Chair when they won the NAR YPN of the Year award and a three-year term on the Board of Directors. In 2013, she was awarded the Rising Star Award and in 2016 "10 under 40." At a State level, she graduated from Ohio REALTORS Leadership Academy and has served numerous appointments, as well as Chair for Ohio REALTORS YPN, Convention Committee, Strategic Planning, and the Board of Directors for 5 years. At the National level, she was appointed to the YPN Advisory Board and RPAC Member Involvement. She is currently rounding out a two-year term on the Meeting and Conference Committee as the Region 6 Representative. Heather was the fifth Ohioan to take the NAR YPN Pledge to invest $10,000 in RPAC over 10 years, a Major Investor and past President’s Circle member. She is a past Women’s Council of REALTORS Columbus President and was awarded Affiliate of the Year in 2012. Prior to becoming a REALTOR, Heather was a licensed title insurance agent and agency owner.
Currently a Dayton REALTORS member, Heather stays actively involved in her community serving on the City of Sidney’s Planning Commission, member of Moose Lodge 568, and as the team admin for her son’s soccer team. She has a passion for old homes and historic architecture which led her to Sidney in the summer of 2018. There, she and her three children (14, 12, 4) are renovating a 133-year-old house with the hopes of saving other blighted homes in the surrounding area, in the near future.
