Nation’s Home Builders Elect Leadership for 2023

With more than 700 affiliated state and local home builders associations and more than 140,000 members across the country, NAHB represents the interests of the nation’s housing professionals through advocacy, education and research.

Taking the helm as NAHB’s Chairman of the Board for 2023 is Alicia Huey, a Birmingham, Ala. -based custom home builder with more than 30 years of experience in the home building industry. Huey founded AGH Homes, Inc. in 2000. In addition to building high-end custom homes for buyers on individual lots, AGH Homes has also built in several golf course communities.

Also moving up on the association’s leadership ladder is Carl Harris, a Wichita, Kan.-based small volume spec and custom home builder with more than 40 years of experience in the home building, remodeling and light commercial construction industry. He was elected as First Vice Chairman of the Board. As co-founder and vice president of the Carl Harris Co., Inc. and managing partner of Harris Homes, Harris has built homes in many communities around the state of Kansas.

Buddy Hughes, a Lexington, N.C.based home builder and developer with more than 45 years of experience in the home building industry, was elected as Second Vice Chairman. Hughes in 1984 opened his own general contracting business, Hughes Construction, specializing in home building and light commercial construction.

Bill Owens joined the NAHB leadership ladder with his election as Third Vice Chairman of the Board. A Worthington, Ohiobased, remodeler and home builder with more than 40 years of experience in the residential construction industry, Owens is president of Owens Construction, a leading residential design/build firm in central Ohio.