Dottie Herman

Dottie Herman is Vice Chair and co-owner of Douglas Elliman Real Estate. Under her leadership, Douglas Elliman is New York's largest residential brokerage, with over 7,000 real estate professionals and 675 employees working in more than 113 offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, the Hamptons and the North Fork, Westchester/Putnam, South Florida, Aspen and Los Angeles.

In addition, Herman, named “America’s Richest Self-Made Women in Real Estate" by Forbes magazine, also controls a portfolio of real estate services, including commercial and retail leasing and sales; relocation and settling in services; new development consulting; and Manhattan's largest residential property manager, Douglas Elliman Property Management, as well as DE Title, and DE Capital Mortgage. She began her career as a real estate broker.

Herman also hosts AM970 The Answer's Saturday morning radio show, "Eye on Real Estate," focused on the latest real estate market trends and news.

Throughout her distinguished career, Herman has received several honors and accolades including the Distinguished Community Leadership Award at the 12th Annual Heart of the Hamptons Gala and the Outstanding New Yorker Award from the Guardian Angels. Crain’s New York Business named her among the 50 Most Powerful Women in New York and she has been celebrated on The New York Observer's The Power 100 and Forbes' 50 Over 50 lists. In 2017, Herman was honored at the United Nations Women’s Entrepreneurship Day where she was awarded the prestigious Business Pioneer Award.

Herman is an honored contributor to The Sunrise Fund at Stony Brook University Medical Center, a program established to raise awareness and funds for pediatric oncology programs. She is a longtime supporter of the American Heart Association, the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, the Southampton Hospital, the Katz Institute for Women's Health and Katz Women's Hospital located at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset and LIJ Medical Center in New Hyde Park. She is also involved with the Every Woman Matters Walk: A Walk for Women and Their Families.