Fort Worth Commercial Realtor Appointed to Advisory Committee

COLLEGE STATION (Real Estate Center) – Fort Worth commercial Realtor W. Douglas Jennings is the newest member of the Advisory Committee for the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University.

Jennings, who succeeds Mike Boyd of Houston in representing the commercial real estate sector, is a vice president and principal for William C. Jennings Company. His father, William C. Jennings, served on the advisory committee in the 1980s.

The University of Texas alumnus is a member and past commercial chairman of the Texas Association of Realtors, member and past governmental affairs chairman of the Greater Fort Worth Association of Realtors (GFWAR), member and past chairman of the Society of Commercial Realtors and a member of the National Association of Realtors.

In 2004, he was named GFWAR’s Realtor of the Year. He was also the 1997 recipient of the Lone Star Trophy Award for the year’s most outstanding commercial transaction in Texas, and the 2002 recipient of the Charles D. Tandy Award for most outstanding commercial Realtor.

Jennings is also a board member and past president of the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation, member and past president of Arlington Heights High School Booster Club and a member of Fort Worth Young Life Steering Committee and Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.

The Advisory Committee was created by a 1971 law establishing the Real Estate Center and placing it at Texas A&M. Nine members are appointed by the governor for six-year terms. Six are real estate brokers licensed for at least five years. The brokers represent finance, improvements, residential properties, commercial properties and industrial properties. Three members represent the public.