2012 Board Meeting Schedule

mikefuller — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:52:50 +0000

Board Meeting dates are set as shown below and all meetings are to be held at the offices of Best Association Management located at 1500 Macon Drive Suite D-7 in Little Rock:

March 21, 2012,
June 16, 2012
September 12, 2012
December 5, 2012

The meeting will be held at the offices of Best Association Management 1500 Macon Drive Suite D-7 in Little Rock.

Hot Springs Auctioneer Inducted into National Hall of Fame

admin — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:50:57 +0000

Overland Park, Kan., July 20, 2011 – For three generations, the Wilson family of Hot Springs, Ark. have served as stewards and ambassadors for the auction profession and industry. On Thursday, July 14, Joe Wilson, CAI of Hot Springs, Ark. was recognized for his years of service and leadership to the profession by being inducted into the National.

Auctioneers Association (NAA) Hall of Fame. Wilson joins a distinguished group of 131 auctioneers who have served one of history’s oldest professions and a bronze portrait of Wilson will join fellow honorees on the Hall of Fame wall in Overland Park, Kan. at the NAA headquarters. Wilson was inducted at the 62nd International Auctioneers Conference and Show in Orlando, Fla. before his family, friends and peers.

Wilson, 57, was born and raised to be an auctioneer. In 1961, Joe’s father, James E. Wilson, started the family auction business. Originally a consignment auction business, Joe and his mother and two sisters, helped their father with the family business. In 1972, after graduating from Fort Smith Auction School and earning his auctioneer license, Joe joined the business full-time. Wilson obtained his real estate license in 1973 and went on to become a broker in 1981. In 1986, Joe succeeded his father as president of the business. A passionate and fervent believer of auctions, particularly real estate auctions, Joe was determined to make the auction method marketing the first choice, not the last resort. In the 1990s, Joe transformed the company to focus solely on real estate auctions and Joe has
conducted thousands of real estate auctions. One of Joe’s most notable real
estate auctions was the selling of President Bill Clinton’s childhood home
in Hot Springs, Ark.

A lifetime member of the NAA, Joe has served the auction industry and profession in multiple leadership positions the past 30 years. Wilson was first elected director of the national association in 1996 and five years later serve as president of the world’s largest professional association dedicated to the auction profession and industry. After serving as president, Wilson went on to lead the largest fundraising initiative in the association’s history, raising over $3 million in donations. Joe has also served as a leader in his home state of Arkansas. In 1989, Joe was appointed by Governor Bill Clinton to serve on the Arkansas Auctioneers Licensing Board which he would eventually serve as chairman. A past president of the Arkansas Auctioneers Association , Joe joined his father as a member of this association’s Hall of Fame in 2003. Joe earned the auction industry’s highest educational achievement, Certified Auctioneer Institute (CAI)
designation after completing the three-year program in 1994.

Joe resides in Hot Springs, Ark. with this wife, Susan. The daughter of an auctioneer, Joe was introduced to Susan at the 1975 NAA convention and they would go on to marry one-year later and raise three children. The third generation of the Wilson family work in the family business including Joe’s son, daughter and son-in-law, as well as his nephew and a niece’s husband.