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If playing football as a star linebacker under the legendary Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant seems like a major accomplishment for any University of Alabama alumni, add leading the U.S. Olympic Judo Team as Captain in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Meet Dewey Mitchell successful athlete, businessman, community leader, and Suncoast Crimson Tide member!
Mr. Mitchell was featured on News Channel 8.
- Florida Real Estate License -- 1981
- Florida Brokers License -- 1983
- Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) Designation – 1991
- President, West Pasco Board of Realtors -- 1995
- Recognized as the #1 Sales Associate nationwide in the Prudential network -- 2002
- Recognized as a member of the Chairman’s Circle for the past 20 years, representing the top 3% of all associates in the Prudential network
- Consistently recognized among the Top 5 for sales volume the Florida Gulf Coast Association of Realtors (FGCAR) since 1995
- Dewey brokered one of the largest real estate deals in company history, having sold a 100+-acre parcel to a firm managed by former Crimson Tide teammate Rich Wingo. The transaction totaled nearly $27 million and took place in 2002.
In 1984, when he was just 28 years old, Dewey purchased a 2-office real estate company with his former Alabama teammate Allen Crumbley. Established in 1959 as Tropical Realty, Dewey and Allen aligned their company with the Prudential Real Estate network in 1988. At that time, the company had 2 residential offices and approximately $10 Million in sales volume. By, 2005 they grew the company to 15 residential offices and $1.1 Billion in sales volume—essentially growing the company 100 times its original size!
Consistently recognized as the second largest real estate company (and the largest privately held real estate company) in the Greater Tampa Bay area, Prudential Tropical Realty currently has more than 700 sales executives and employees and offers a full menu of services including: title, mortgage, commercial and residential real estate sales and management. The Company has been consistently ranked among the top 40 Prudential Real Estate Companies garnering the coveted Gibraltar Circle award since the early 1990s.
Prudential CRES Commercial Real Estate, one of Allen and Dewey’s companies, consistently ranks as one of the top 3 in sales production nationally for the past 10 years in the Prudential network.
- First Vice Chairman, Pinellas Anclote River Basin Board, 1993-1996
- Committee of 100 (Now Pasco Economic Development Council), 1988-1998; Past President, 1996
- Past President, West Pasco Chamber of Commerce—instrumental in establishing Business Development Week, a 3-day event with seminars and best practice sessions that is still active today.
- Past Member, Board of Directors, Barnett Bank of Pasco County
- Past Member, Board of Directors, Village Bank
- Past Member, Board of Directors, 1st Kensington Bank
- Current Board of Directors, Superior Bank, Birmingham, Alabama
- Past chair and current Board Member of the Tampa Bay Partnership where he has been a long-time advocate for regional transportation solutions. As Co-Chair of the Partnership’s Transportation Task Force, Mr. Mitchell was a driving force behind the region’s successful effort to create the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transportation Authority in 2007. He also served in the effort to recruit the 2012 Olympics to Central Florida.
- Varsity football coach, Gulf High School, 1982-1983
- First Citizen to receive Key to Pasco County, 1984
- Board of Directors, Boys and Girls Club, 1982-1986
- Participated in orchestrating a 2.5 acre land donation from Pasco County to the Boys and Girls Club for their permanent facility
- Charter Member, Rotary Club of Seven Springs, 1987
- Past President, Rotary Club of Seven Springs, 1992
- Co-Chairman, United Way of Pasco Campaign, 1994
- Charter Executive Committee and Past Chair of the Odessa Rodeo, a 3-day event grossing $350,000 for local charities
- Chairman, Capital Development Campaign for the Gills Family YMCA, 1993-1998. Campaign raised the highest amount for a single charitable organization and helped construct the $6 million dollar facility serving more than 15,000 individuals
- Chairman, Board of Directors, Morton Plant/Mease-Northbay Hospital
- Current Chairman, Capital Campaign for Northbay Hospital- $5 Million Goal
- Chairman, American Heart Association Heart Walk raising more than $100,000
- Capital Campaign Chairman, Presbyterian Church of Seven Springs
- Capital Campaign Chairman, Generations Christian Church-$8 Million Pledged
- Church Elder, Generations Christian Church
- Hosts Bible study group at home
- Coached various kids programs
- Member of Founding Board for Pasco County Coaches Appreciation Dinner and Lead Gift Sponsor first year of inception
- As President of Prudential Tropical Realty, the company has championed more than 60 local and national causes including: the Warrick Dunn Foundation’s Homes for the Holidays; Take Stock in Children, Sunshine Kids, Charity Works and the Pasco Education Foundation
- Roasted at the 2006 Gulfside Hospice Annual Dinner and Fundraising event
- Member, Selection Committee, Hall of Fame Bowl (now known as the Outback Bowl)
- Supporter of Crimson Tradition Fund
- Mitchell family is major benefactor to Northbay Hospital- Mitchell Rehab Center named in Family Honor
- Mitchell family is Major Benefactor to Gills Family YMCA- Mitchell Teen Center is named in Family Honor
- BS Degree in Commerce & Business Administration/Marketing –University of Alabama -- 1979
- 4 Time US Senior National Champion- Judo
- 1983 Bronze Medalist-British Masters Open-Judo
- 1983 Bronze Medalist-Scandinavian Open-Judo
- 1984 Bronze Medal-Czechoslovakian Open-Judo
- 1984 Gold Medalist-Belgium Open-Judo
- Captain of the USA 1984 Olympic Judo Team
- Egypt Temple Shrine Community Service Award, 1998
- J. Rex Farrior Award from Tampa Chapter of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame for Community Service, 1998
- Voted by Tampa Tribune to the Top 100 Athletes in Tampa Bay’s All Century Team for the 20th Century, 1999
- YMCA Order of the Red Triangle Award, 2007
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