HGAR, HGMLS appoint new leadership for 2013

The Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors (HGAR) has chosen Katheryn DeClerk as its 2013 president.

DeClerk, an associate broker with Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty in Warwick, succeeds Nancy Kennedy from the firm Houlihan Lawrence in Croton-on-Hudson. Diane Cummins, director of sales for the Somers and Katonah offices of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate, is president-elect for 2014.

Also, Russ Woolley was appointed president of the Hudson Gateway Multiple Listing Service (HGMLS). Woolley, owner and principal broker of Wright Bros. Real Estate in Nyack, assumes his position this year, succeeding Gary Leogrande of Keller Williams NY Realty in White Plains.

Both Kennedy and Leogrande will continue on the respective executive committees of HGAR and HGMLS.

HGAR, a nonprofit trade association which covers 9,000 real estate professionals within Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, and Orange counties, also owns HGMLS. The listing service is among the 50 largest MLSs in the nation.