Nora Gutierrez-Olmos graduated with a B.A. from the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico, and an M.A. from the University of Houston. She has exercised multiple careers by working as a translator and a teacher for twenty-five years, having retired from law enforcement after twenty-one years and now teaching at Houston Baptist University, Houston Community College and San Jacinto Community College. Nora also has seventeen years experience in real estate and mortgage lending, with fifteen years as a real estate broker and eight months as a mortgage broker. She owns Mortgage Capital and is the designated broker of Commercial Real Estate of Texas, L.L.C.
Charles J. Jacobus received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Houston in 1970 and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Houston Law Center in 1973. He is board certified by the State Bar of Texas Board of Legal Specialization in both residential and commercial real estate law. He is a member of the American College of Lawyers and the Houston Real Estate Lawyer's Council, and has served as president of the Real Estate Educators' Association, chairman of the Real Estate Section of the Houston Bar Association, and chairman of the American Bar Association Committee on Real Estate Brokers and Brokerage. He has served on the Board of Editors for the American Bar Association Committee on Books and Publications, was Mayor of his hometown, Bellaire, Texas, and currently serves on the Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Council of the State Bar of Texas, and is chairman of the State Bar of Texas Committee on Title Insurance.
