Highwoods Properties Inc. announced that Thomas W. Adler will be retiring from the Board upon expiration of his term on the annual stockholder meeting date. Mr. Adler has been a director of Highwoods since June 1994. Charles A. Anderson, co-founder of Bandera Ventures and a former long-term senior executive director of Trammell Crow Company, has been nominated for election as a director at the annual meeting.