Biggest climbers in North Carolina in 2023, ranked by total volume. Powered by ChatMMI — the only fully conversational AI experience for mortgage and real estate data.
As of May 28, 2026, the top 3 include LORI MARTIN (State Employees' Credit Union, NMLS #702088), Christina Redman (Navy Federal Credit Union, NMLS #2364403), and Dawn Carter Mullen (Ridgeland Mortgage, LLC, NMLS #1739949).
Updated · Recorded mortgage transactions typically appear in this dataset approximately 22 days after the recording date.
| Rank | Loan officer | LO NMLS | Current Lender / Broker | Lender NMLS | Location | Rank Change | 2023 Volume | 2023 Loans |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | LORI MARTIN | 702088 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | Raleigh, NC | ▲ 9267 (#9992 → #725) | $15.4M | 67 |
| #2 | Christina Redman | 2364403 | Navy Federal Credit Union | 399807 | — | ▲ 8895 (#9260 → #365) | $22.7M | 68 |
| #3 | Dawn Carter Mullen | 1739949 | Ridgeland Mortgage, LLC | 2245922 | Chandler, AZ | ▲ 8535 (#8926 → #391) | $22.0M | 71 |
| #4 | Stephanie Bell | 1305180 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | Raleigh, NC | ▲ 8529 (#9463 → #934) | $12.8M | 61 |
| #5 | Robert Kennedy | 1564396 | Neighborhood Mortgage Solutions, LLC | 191693 | Baldwin, MI | ▲ 8440 (#9789 → #1349) | $9.3M | 40 |
| #6 | Christian Carter | 2147300 | Guild Mortgage Company LLC | 3274 | Jacksonville, NC | ▲ 8129 (#9605 → #1476) | $8.6M | 29 |
| #7 | David Myers | 1491741 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | — | ▲ 7943 (#9973 → #2030) | $6.2M | 35 |
| #8 | Makayla Harrelson | 1813098 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | Charlotte, NC | ▲ 7775 (#9818 → #2043) | $6.2M | 31 |
| #9 | David Nogradi | 2307216 | Guild Mortgage Company LLC | 3274 | — | ▲ 7654 (#9046 → #1392) | $9.1M | 22 |
| #10 | Macy Swartz | 2365581 | NorthSide Mortgage Group LLC | 68411 | Mount Airy, NC | ▲ 7622 (#9610 → #1988) | $6.3M | 31 |
| #11 | Joshua Smith | 2301088 | loanDepot.com, LLC | 174457 | Plano, TX | ▲ 7466 (#9900 → #2434) | $5.1M | 20 |
| #12 | Jonathan Schunker | 2184002 | JAMS-01, Inc | 192608 | Raleigh, NC | ▲ 7438 (#9665 → #2227) | $5.6M | 17 |
| #13 | Casey Godwin | 1540246 | Zillow Home Loans, LLC | 10287 | Overland Park, KS | ▲ 7337 (#9592 → #2255) | $5.5M | 16 |
| #14 | Brendan Rose | 1991546 | Nexus Nova LLC | 2082961 | Charlotte, NC | ▲ 7330 (#9359 → #2029) | $6.2M | 19 |
| #15 | Pagadala Shalini | 1961554 | C 4 D Mortgage Company LLC | 151261 | Troy, MI | ▲ 7247 (#8363 → #1116) | $11.1M | 23 |
| #16 | Jordan Branch | 2247937 | CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC | 3029 | Archdale, NC | ▲ 7227 (#9520 → #2293) | $5.4M | 26 |
| #17 | Jasmine Miller | 1718693 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | — | ▲ 7184 (#8431 → #1247) | $10.0M | 55 |
| #18 | Megan Carpenter | 1554692 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | Raleigh, NC | ▲ 7160 (#9170 → #2010) | $6.3M | 36 |
| #19 | Nichole Jacobs | 1289453 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | Raleigh, NC | ▲ 7153 (#8123 → #970) | $12.4M | 60 |
| #20 | Sharon McFarland | 177465 | The First Bank and Trust Company | 486426 | Kingsport, TN | ▲ 7060 (#8544 → #1484) | $8.5M | 18 |
| #21 | Brittany Joyce Thornton | 1771206 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | Greensboro, NC | ▲ 7004 (#8780 → #1776) | $7.1M | 50 |
| #22 | Corey Harding | 1479478 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | — | ▲ 6934 (#9833 → #2899) | $4.1M | 27 |
| #23 | Anthony Russo | 1538011 | loanDepot.com, LLC | 174457 | Southfield, MI | ▲ 6888 (#9123 → #2235) | $5.6M | 22 |
| #24 | Olyn Borchardt | 320177 | Paramount Residential Mortgage Group, Inc. | 75243 | Corona, CA | ▲ 6886 (#9364 → #2478) | $5.0M | 19 |
| #25 | Christopher Drescher | 896462 | Onity Mortgage Corporation | 2726 | Plano, TX | ▲ 6853 (#9426 → #2573) | $4.8M | 16 |
| #26 | Daniel Talley | 925819 | Atlantic Union Bank | 551889 | Reston, VA | ▲ 6838 (#8420 → #1582) | $8.0M | 11 |
| #27 | Michael Wissing | 1439868 | GoodLeap, LLC | 30336 | Phoenix, AZ | ▲ 6794 (#9798 → #3004) | $3.9M | 20 |
| #28 | Christian Sanson | 1827877 | Loan Pronto, Inc. | 1661781 | Charlotte, NC | ▲ 6776 (#8323 → #1547) | $8.2M | 26 |
| #29 | Mary Teson | 1974450 | Mortgage Research Center, LLC | 1907 | Earth City, MO | ▲ 6776 (#9617 → #2841) | $4.2M | 13 |
| #30 | Alyssa Hicklin | 2231687 | Reliance First Capital, LLC | 58775 | Charlotte, NC | ▲ 6735 (#9045 → #2310) | $5.3M | 23 |
| #31 | Rhonda Carlisle | 1233767 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | Tarboro, NC | ▲ 6715 (#8997 → #2282) | $5.4M | 40 |
| #32 | John Davis | 864921 | Oak City Lending LLC | 1969372 | Raleigh, NC | ▲ 6711 (#8895 → #2184) | $5.7M | 16 |
| #33 | Steven Barnes | 866759 | American Bank of the Carolinas | 1864455 | Indian Trail, NC | ▲ 6666 (#9480 → #2814) | $4.2M | 10 |
| #34 | Sierra Nance | 1748785 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | Whitsett, NC | ▲ 6574 (#8446 → #1872) | $6.7M | 41 |
| #35 | Jenae Palmer | 1174271 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | Ahoskie, NC | ▲ 6488 (#9941 → #3453) | $3.3M | 31 |
| #36 | KATIE EVANS | 101963 | Carolina Home Mortgage, Inc. | 39862 | Fayetteville, NC | ▲ 6476 (#9202 → #2726) | $4.4M | 17 |
| #37 | Shahbul Molla | 1922429 | Longbridge Financial, LLC | 957935 | — | ▲ 6467 (#9746 → #3279) | $3.5M | 2 |
| #38 | Jennifer Johnston | 1948839 | Mid-Continent Funding, Inc. | 1313859 | Columbia, MO | ▲ 6464 (#9572 → #3108) | $3.8M | 12 |
| #39 | Kwesi Enu | 1309486 | Rocket Mortgage, LLC | 3030 | Detroit, MI | ▲ 6453 (#9317 → #2864) | $4.1M | 14 |
| #40 | Israel Vance | 1468594 | First Horizon Bank | 472329 | Johnson City, TN | ▲ 6434 (#9114 → #2680) | $4.5M | 5 |
| #41 | Brittney White | 1494640 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | — | ▲ 6410 (#8762 → #2352) | $5.2M | 39 |
| #42 | Andre Raveling | 1921056 | PennyMac Loan Services, LLC | 35953 | — | ▲ 6391 (#9748 → #3357) | $3.4M | 10 |
| #43 | Dima Zimmerman | 1032611 | Velocio Mortgage L.L.C. | 1529234 | Farmers Branch, TX | ▲ 6370 (#7516 → #1146) | $10.8M | 26 |
| #44 | Robert Howell | 589374 | First National Bank of Pennsylvania | 766529 | — | ▲ 6342 (#8830 → #2488) | $5.0M | 7 |
| #45 | Katherine Hardy | 1268183 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | Raleigh, NC | ▲ 6285 (#6930 → #645) | $16.5M | 61 |
| #46 | Shawn Ryan | 1481220 | West Capital Lending, Inc. | 1566096 | Irvine, CA | ▲ 6281 (#9681 → #3400) | $3.4M | 12 |
| #47 | Elijah Tanner | 2218948 | Lennar Mortgage, LLC | 1058 | Chapel Hill, NC | ▲ 6279 (#6458 → #179) | $31.6M | 104 |
| #48 | Samantha Thompson | 1675371 | State Employees' Credit Union | 430055 | Raleigh, NC | ▲ 6256 (#7879 → #1623) | $7.9M | 32 |
| #49 | Xavier Flores | 2131201 | Pentagon Federal Credit Union | 401822 | Tysons, VA | ▲ 6247 (#9510 → #3263) | $3.5M | 14 |
| #50 | Aaron Meilich | 769327 | Waterstone Mortgage Corporation | 186434 | Sacramento, CA | ▲ 6206 (#9797 → #3591) | $3.2M | 5 |
These rankings are powered by MMI's nationwide residential mortgage public record dataset. MMI collects mortgage transaction data from recording jurisdictions across the United States, with an average data latency of approximately 22 days from the recording date.
Transactions are matched to NMLS identifiers for loan officers, lenders, and brokers where applicable. MMI then deduplicates, normalizes, and validates this data to create an authoritative mortgage production dataset that powers MMI's analytics, recruiting, marketing, and intelligence products.
Rankings reflect recorded mortgage transactions available to MMI at the time of the last data refresh. Recent activity may continue to update as additional transactions are recorded and processed.
TopMortgageOriginators.com. Biggest Climbers by Volume — North Carolina (2023). Powered by MMI public record mortgage production data, accessed May 28, 2026. https://topmortgageoriginators.com/lo-leaderboard/north-carolina/top-climbers-by-volume/2023
Powered by ChatMMI