Full Name
Julie Baird
Job Title
President, First American Exchange, Co.
Company
First American Exchange Company
Speaker Bio
Julie Baird is President of First American Exchange Company. She leverages people centered leadership practices to foster an organizational culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust, with employees reporting high job satisfaction while delivering record setting financial results.
A fierce advocate for elevating female voices within the CRE industry, Julie has been a member of GlobeSt Woman of Influence speaking faculty since its inception and was awarded as a Woman of Influence in 2023; she was awarded First American’s DPK Circle of Excellence Award in 2022, a recognition given to a very small number of the highest achieving employees in the entire organization of nearly 20,000 employees, and Julie was invited to participate in First American’s Women in Leadership class of 2021 and selected by her class as a presenter to the First American Financial executive team.
Julie is a past President of the Federation of Exchange Accommodators and is past Director for CREW Denver. She is a frequent speaker and author on 1031 exchange and industry related topics.
Julie is a former Chair of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Law Section of the State Bar of California and she is the prior Managing Editor of the California Real Property Journal. In 2009, Julie was named as one of the "Top 20 Under 40" real estate professionals by the Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network.
Prior to joining First American, Julie was a real estate attorney in San Francisco.
A fierce advocate for elevating female voices within the CRE industry, Julie has been a member of GlobeSt Woman of Influence speaking faculty since its inception and was awarded as a Woman of Influence in 2023; she was awarded First American’s DPK Circle of Excellence Award in 2022, a recognition given to a very small number of the highest achieving employees in the entire organization of nearly 20,000 employees, and Julie was invited to participate in First American’s Women in Leadership class of 2021 and selected by her class as a presenter to the First American Financial executive team.
Julie is a past President of the Federation of Exchange Accommodators and is past Director for CREW Denver. She is a frequent speaker and author on 1031 exchange and industry related topics.
Julie is a former Chair of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Law Section of the State Bar of California and she is the prior Managing Editor of the California Real Property Journal. In 2009, Julie was named as one of the "Top 20 Under 40" real estate professionals by the Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network.
Prior to joining First American, Julie was a real estate attorney in San Francisco.
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