Vote for your 2025-2026 Executive Board Members

Candidate Bios

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  • Joe began surveying in 1997 and is licensed in the states in of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois. As the Energy Sector Survey Manager, he oversees all aspects of land surveying and mapping activities from initial set-up through project delivery. Additionally, Joe leads the survey management team providing strategic vision, integrated coordination, standards, performance, and staff development.

    Joe’s project experience includes energy projects such as electric transmission, electric sub-stations, natural gas pipelines, gas regulator stations, industrial plants, and wind turbine projects. He has experience performing, preparing, and supervising surveys involving government land corners and corner certificates, section breakdowns, highway right-of-way, and railroad property and is responsible for boundary, topographic, and engineering design surveys; section corner re-monumentation, right-of-way and subdivision platting, ALTA/NSPS land title surveys, construction staking, acquisition surveys, and preparing and interpreting property descriptions.

  • Mike is a real estate appraiser for the Metropolitan Council. He oversees the valuation needed by the Metropolitan Council in the regional policy-making, planning, and providing of essential services to the seven-county Twin Cities metro area of Minnesota. Mike has been appraising for 33 years and enjoys being involved with organizations to promote the profession while taking time to enjoy travel and yardwork. He also enjoys collecting and restoring antique lighting.

  • Madalynn joined Great River Energy as a field representative in the Land Rights Department in September 2023. She carries out acquisition for transmission lines, substations, and more working closely with property owners to secure easements. She holds the RWA certification. She is the Chapter 20 Environmental Chair and Social Media/Marketing Chair.

    An accomplished Environmental Science and Conservation professional holding an MS in Environmental Science, Madalynn brings her expertise to the real estate industry as a licensed REALTOR in the Twin Cities area. Her diverse background includes being featured as a local real estate expert on HGTV's House Hunters, where her knowledge and passion for property and land acquisition shone through. With a well-developed skill set encompassing research, writing, planning, and consulting, she is adept at navigating complex environmental and real estate landscapes both domestically and internationally.

  • Byron Miller, SRA, AI-RRS, ASA, RAA, MSSE, is a certified residential appraiser licensed in Minnesota and Wisconsin. He is the owner and principal appraiser of BM Appraisals in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His firm specializes in valuation services for consulting, dissolution, eminent domain, estate, litigation, and relocation. This is Byron’s second act, which is a profession of choice. He spent his first act as a firmware engineer/manager for several fortune 500 companies. His appraisal interest started in 1986 when he watched an appraiser appraise his home. However, life got in the way, and he didn’t consummate his passion for the valuation profession until 2001. Byron’s niche is valuing complex properties. Such as, agricultural, construction defects, lakefront, multi-unit, and upper-bracket properties, for attorneys, eminent domain, estates, and lenders. He is an instructor, course developer, author, an eminent domain county commissioner, past Chair of the MN Real Estate Appraiser Advisory Board (REAAB), past President North Star Chapter, past president Relocation Appraisers & Consultants, and a member of the Appraiser Qualifications Board (AQB) of The Appraisal Foundation or TAF. Byron has an intense passion for appraising and helping others. This passion manifests itself in the form of continual self-improvement through education, instruction, and mentoring.

2025-2026 IRWA Ch.20 Executive Board Vote