Norris Minick, Ph.D., CRS, ABR, GRI

Professional History: Norris began his real estate career with an exclusive buyer agency firm in Boulder in 1991 and established Agents for Home Buyers in 2004. Over the years, Norris and his team have worked as buyer agents to help more than 500 individuals and families work through the home buying process. Norris is committed to providing first rate real estate services to home buyers and to working as a consultant and consumer advocate rather than as a sales person in promoting the interests of home buyers. Norris has worked to extend his real estate knowledge by completing course requirements for the GRI (Graduate Real Estate Institute), CRS (Certified Residential Specialist), and ABR (Accredited Buyer Agent) certificates. His commitment to buyer representation and developing his knowledge and skills has also been reflected in his active participation in state and national associations of buyer agents. He was a founding member of the Colorado Exclusive Buyer Agents Association (CEBAA) and has served several terms as CEBAA's President. He has also been very active in the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents (NAEBA) and has served as a member of NAEBA's Board of Directors.

Personal History: Norris has been blissfully married to his wife Ellen for more than 30 years. He has two sons, Eric and Michael. Eric graduated from the University of Colorado School of Engineering computer science program, lives in Denver, and works as a sales engineer. Michael recently completed his MBA and a graduate program in hospital management at the University of Washington and is working for a Univeristy of Washington hospital in Seattle, . Norris grew up in the open spaces of Wyoming -- fishing, hunting, hiking and skiing. Norris and Ellen met as freshmen at Northwestern University near Chicago, where Ellen studied speech pathology and Norris studied anthropology and the history of religions. After graduating and marrying, Norris and Ellen spent several years in Madison Wisconsin, while Ellen completed her masters degree and Norris worked, wrote and made research trips to Navajo country in New Mexico. They moved from Madison to Laramie Wyoming, where Norris studied law for a year and Ellen worked at the University of Wyoming. And then it was back to Northwestern where Norris completed a Ph.D. in anthropology, studying the mechanisms of social and cultural impacts on child development. This was followed by postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago and in Moscow in the Breshnev era. And then it was back to the Chicago area where Norris studied the impacts of early primary school education of cognitive development. In 1991, a determined effort to return to the Rocky Mountains brought the family to the Boulder area and their home in Louisville where Ellen (now with Kaiser Permanente) continued her 35+ year career working with stroke and head injury patients and Norris began working in real estate as an exclusive buyer agent.