Bill Milliken was elected a trustee of Washtenaw Community College in 2016. He is the president of Milliken Realty Co., an Ann Arbor commercial real estate brokerage firm which he founded in 1996. He is also a director of the National Association of Realtors and chair of NAR's Commercial Committee.
He served as the 100th president of the 30,000 member Michigan Realtors in 2013 and currently holds a seat as a Michigan Realtors director. Bill launched his real estate career in Ann Arbor in 1987. Previously, he worked in Washington, D.C. for NASA and the U.S. Dept. of Justice.
Bill is a director of the CCIM Foundation and served three terms on the board of the CCIM Institute; he did trade missions to Taipei (2015) and Mexico (2016) and was a delegate on CCIM's trade mission to China in 2006. He was named REALTOR®-of-the-Year by the Michigan Commercial Board of REALTORS® and Ann Arbor Area Board of REALTORS®, respectively.
He has been a member of the board of the Washtenaw Community College Foundation since 2012, and serves on the board of New Detroit (www.newdetroit.org) and Groundwork Center (www.groundworkcenter.org). Bill served as president of the Commercial Board of REALTORS®, a director of Republic Bancorp, and board chair of the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce.