Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc. announced that Daniel M. DuPree, the Company's Executive Chairman of the Board, has elected not to stand for re-election at the Company's 2021 Annual Stockholders Meeting and to retire from the Board of Directors (the "Board"), effective on June 3, 2021, the date of the Annual Stockholders Meeting. Mr. DuPree, age 74, has served on the Board of PAC since the Company's IPO in 2011 and has served as Executive Chairman of the Board since January 2020. Previously, he served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from April 2018 to December 2019, and as Vice Chairman of the Board from August 2012 to April 2018.