Biographical Information for H. Edward Heron

By H. Edward Heron

I have enjoyed a 42 year professional real estate career in Santa Barbara starting in 1965 with Heron Realty (formed by my parents Harry and Jeanette Heron in 1948) in 1965 and ending with Coldwell Banker. During the last few years I was known by 10,000 Coldwell Banker real estate agents as the California Website Champion and the VP for eStrategies as the creator of the award winning real estate website, CaliforniaMoves.com. The California Real Estate Association honored me with their highest honor, the California's Distinguished Realtor, in 1992 and I was named the Facilitator of the Year in Real Estate by the Lou Tice Pacific Institute in Seattle, Washington in 1994. The Santa Barbara Association of Realtors honored me with their Realtor of the Year award in both 1973 and 1981.

I was a Director for City Commerce Bank and Mid-State Bank and Trust (a $2 billion dollar bank with 41 offices in the tri-counties) serving on their Audit Committees. As the founding President of the Mid-State Bank and Trust Foundation and the founding Chair of the Coldwell Banker Community Foundation it was my goal to have both Foundations place a heavy emphasis on education, youth and the arts. I am the Immediate Past President of Partners in Education and have been a leader in its Computer For Families program for the past 11 years providing over 7,000 computers free to South Coast families along with computer training to teachers and families. My company provided 250 classroom URLs through the Teacher Web program this past year. During the past three years I aided in the successful effort to raise almost $4,000,000 to ensure that the Computers For Families program continues indefinitely without any worries about fund raising. I served as the 2006-2008 Chair of the UCSB Economic Forecast, Santa Barbara. The Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce in 2007 honored me with the Businessman of the Year Award and the South Coast Business and Technology group honored Partners in Education with their Community Service Award for 2007-2008 at their annual banquet. As a signatory on the Ballot argument for Measure V (Santa Barbara City College) I was very proud of our community for passing the measure overwhelmingly in the recent election. I have been appointed to the Citizen Oversight Committee to insure funds are properly expended.