BANKING
Lance Black and Elliot Hartle have been promoted by the Arkansas State Bank Department to junior bank examiner. Daniel Park and Joel Futrell have been promoted to senior examiner.
CONSTRUCTION
Nick Copas, president of Industrial Services Division at Baldwin & Shell, has been elected to Baldwin & Shell's board of directors.
EDUCATION
Doze Y. Butler has been named dean/director for the School of Agriculture, Fisheries and Human Sciences at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
Claudia Utley has been promoted to the new role of communications director for Economics Arkansas, a nonprofit educational organization. Ginsie Higgs was hired as project support specialist.
The New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro has added pediatricians Jude Cope, D.O., Christine Hartford, M.D., and Hilliary Sismondo, M.D., as assistant professors of clinical medicine.
INSURANCE
David Dundee has been promoted to lead executive of Individual Products, and George Burks has been promoted to lead executive of the Group Market segment for Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
LAW
Mitchell Williams attorney Lyn P. Pruitt was elected to the American College of Trial Lawyers Board of Regents at its 69th annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.
WHERE TO SEND NOTICES
Notices of executive promotions, new hires or job changes should be sent to: People Editor; Business News Department; Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ; P.O. Box 2221; Little Rock, Ark. 72203, or by e-mail to news@arkansasonline.com. Notices should be limited to a few paragraphs and may be accompanied by a photograph, preferably a glossy black and white, which will be used on a space available basis. Photos cannot be returned.
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