Jeffrey Hicks is a native of Atlanta, GA. He is an Associate Broker with Apollo Associates Realty where he started his real estate career in 1995.

He currently serves as 1st Vice President of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) with responsibility of the Education, Technology, Constitution & By-Laws, Grievance & Arbitration, and Budget & Finance national committees and has oversight of seven states in the Southeast Region including Kentucky, Tennessee Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida.

Jeffrey’s primary goal as 1st Vice President is to focus on developing a Strategic Organizational Planning model that will identify and define NAREB’s organizational challenges and strategic opportunities in order to increase the organization’s overall value through planning, structuring and organizational control.
Jeff is a graduate of Georgia State University with a degree in Marketing. He is an active member of Providence Missionary Baptist Church where he serves on the Trustee Board, Finance Committee and on the Environmental Stewardship team as Director of a Community Garden that supplements the food ministry of the Church with naturally and organically grown produce.

He is married to Dr. Joya Hicks and they are the proud parents of two children, Jessica (10) and James (7). Jeff lives by the words of the great educator, humanitarian and international pioneer Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, “every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive, and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.”