Dorcas Helfant-Browning, of Virginia Beach, is a managing partner and principal broker with Coldwell Banker Professional Realtors and former chair of the State Board for Community Colleges, as well as former president of the National Association of Realtors. In 1992 she received an honorary PhD in the humanities from Commonwealth College of Virginia. She has been an active volunteer in her community and was named Hampton Roads Woman of the Year in 1990. She is a past chair of the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce and the Virginia Chamber of Commerce. She was also past president of the Virginia Aquarium Foundation, past board member and board chair of Tidewater Community College, past chair and current board member of Tidewater Community College Real Estate Foundation, and past chair of the Tidewater Council Boy Scouts of America.