ACCOUNTING
HoganTaylor LLP announced the following promotions: Merri M. Barden, senior manager, tax; Lindsey Callery, senior manager, tax; Alison Wynne, senior manager, assurance; Meagan Barkley, manager, tax; Will Buchanan, manager, assurance; Buck Francis, manager, assurance; Teresa Hendrickson, consulting manager, advisory; Krizel Himes, manager, assurance; Chelsi Moss, manager, assurance; Joy Platt, manager, assurance; Blake Postelwait, manager, assurance; Stacy Pritchett, manager, assurance; Andrew Therrell, manager, tax; Travis Allison, senior, assurance; Matt Brown, senior, assurance; Jake Cranfield, senior, assurance; Mattie Daily, senior, assurance; Kylie Gates, senior, assurance; Jillian Hewitt, senior, tax; Elaine Jolly, senior, assurance; Jason Maloney, senior, assurance; Taylor Mayes, senior, assurance; Kathryn Myers, senior, advisory; Bret Rodgers, senior, assurance; Crystal Stasyszen, senior, tax; Megan Vogt, accounting services specialist, advisory.
AGRICULTURE
George's Inc. announced Brian Coan has joined the George's team as chief customer officer.
CONTRACTING
Western Specialty Contractors promoted Travis DeJohn to branch manager of its Little Rock branch office. DeJohn had been the assistant branch manager.
GOVERNMENT
Steve Cleland has been selected as the resource conservationist on the Ecological Sciences staff of the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Arkansas.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Action Claims Administrators announced that Chad Alexander has been named vice president of business development.
LEGAL
Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard elected nine lawyers to the firm's membership level. They are: Ben Brenner, Jason Browning, John Bryant, Adria Conklin, Meg Johnston, Scott Provencher and Mandy Stanton in Little Rock; Wendy Johnson in Northwest Arkansas; and Amanda Maclennan in Austin. The firm also announced several staff additions. Nathan A. Read joined the Jonesboro office as a litigation counsel lawyer. Stanton Strickland joined the regulation business practice in the Austin office. David N. Blackorby joined the firm after serving as vice president of Wal-Mart Global Security Operations. John E. Alexander joined the litigation practice in the Rogers office. Stuart Miller will be practicing in the Rogers office.
MEDICAL
Jefferson Regional Medical Center board of directors has announced that Brian Thomas has been selected as the organization's president and chief executive officer.
Head and neck surgeon Dr. Chelsey Warmack Smith joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She sees patients at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and the Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic in the UAMS Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute.
Dr. Faisal H. Khan is now providing surgical services and endoscopies for residents of Crawford County at Sparks Medical Center-Van Buren.
NONPROFIT
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program has hired Marlon Mowdy to develop the Jacob Wolf House Historic Site in Norfork.
REAL ESTATE
Linda Mayhood has been appointed chief operating officer of the Hot Springs Village Property Owners Association.
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