Sunday, July 26, 2009
Names and changes
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The latest from The Ticker blog
ACCOUNTING
ANDREA KILMER has been named Chief Financial Officer of the Year by Virginia Business magazine and The Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants.
EDUCATION
Gov. Tim Kaine has appointed JOHN JUMPER, retired chief of staff of the Air Force, and KIMBER LATSHA, founding principal of Latsha, Davis, Yohe & McKenna PC, to the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors, and reappointed ELIZABETH LEE CAMP and MARSHALL MUNDY of Roanoke.
LEIGH McCUE-WEIL, assistant professor in the Virginia Tech College of Engineering's Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
DR. MARK GREENAWALD has been named founding chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute.
JESUS de la GARZA, the Vecellio Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, is being honored with a distinguished professor award by the Construction Industry Institute.
RUTH WAALKES has been named executive director of the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech.
ROBERT GRISSO, professor of biological systems engineering in Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and farm equipment and safety specialist for Virginia Cooperative Extension, was elected into the American Society of Agriculture and Biological Engineers' 2009 Class of Fellows.
Virginia Western Community College has hired PATRICIA MARICKOVICH as an infant and toddler specialist.
LAW
JONATHAN BLANK, a partner at McGuire Woods LLP, has been appointed by Gov. Tim Kaine to serve on the Virginia Board of Corrections.
Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore has announced that the following lawyers were recognized as Rising Stars by the Super Lawyers, a national rating poll conducted by Law & Politics magazine: EUNICE AUSTIN, GREGORY HABEEB, KEVIN HOLT, BRYSON HUNTER, J. BARRETT LUCY, JAMES O'KEEFFE, BROOKE ROSEN and ANTHONY RUSSELL.
Woods Rogers PLC has announced that FOURD KEMPER has been selected to serve as vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Virginia State Bar's Business Law Section.
Woods Rogers PLC has announced that the following were recognized as Super Lawyers in Virginia Super Lawyers magazine: THOMAS BAGBY, D. STAN BARNHILL, NEIL BIRKHOFF, AGNIS CHAKRAVORTY, NICHOLAS CONTE, JAMES JENNINGS JR., TALFOURD KEMPER JR., MARK LOFTIS, HEMAN MARSHALL III, RICHARD MAXWELL, J. LEE OSBORNE, WILLIAM POFF, ALEXANDER SAUNDERS, PAUL THOMSON and THOMAS WINN III. In addition, the following have been named as Rising Stars: BRIAN BROWN, B. WEBB KING, ELIZABETH PERROW and DANIEL SUMMERLIN III. WILLIAM POFF has been recognized in the top 50 Virginia Super Lawyer list, one of only two Roanoke attorneys to receive this honor.
OTHER
Cox Communications has named KIM STANLEY vice president of operations.
The Botetourt County Chamber of Commerce has named new officers and directors for 2009-10: LINDA McMILLAN, president; LARRY HARRISS, first vice president; DAVID KNICELY, second vice president; STEVE POWELL, past president; DAN NAFF, secretary/treasurer. New directors include: ANITA ARNOLD, BRIAN BROWN, BOB GERNDT, RUTH HENDRICK, ANDY KELDERHOUSE and SCOTT WINTER.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Roanoke County Fire & Rescue announced the following promotions: DEAN PEROULAS, captain; RANDY SPENCE, captain; REGAN UNDERWOOD, captain; DON ALTICE, lieutenant; JONATHAN BLANK, lieutenant; CHARLIE FERGUSON, lieutenant; KEVIN GRESHAM, lieutenant; RILEY McCLURE, lieutenant; JASON PATTERSON, lieutenant; MIKE ROTH, lieutenant; and JEFF YOPP, lieutenant.
