After a long career in the private sector as a brokerage owner and corporate executive, Bob Clark was appointed director of the Office of Real Estate Appraisers on April 14, 2008, by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Clark is a Republican.

Clark has a bachelor of arts degree in economics from UCLA and began his career in real estate in Los Angeles, where he was vice president of E.W. Moulton Incorporated from 1974-1980 and again from 1987-1990. From 1980-1986 he owned and operated a real estate brokerage business. Clark was a staff appraiser for Cal Fed Bank in 1987 and for the Valley Appraisal Company from 1986-1987. He ventured back into brokerage from 1990 through 1999, once again with his own business. From 1999-2000 Clark was the real estate analyst/administrator for the Sacramento Regional Transit District.

Prior to his OREA appointment, Clark worked for the State of California for more than seven and half years in real property acquisitions. He served as a senior real estate officer at the Department of General Services from 2000 to 2005, where he managed the acquisition program and served as assistant administrative secretary to the State Public Works Board. In 2005, he became a senior land agent for the Wildlife Conservation Board.

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