VOL. 118 | NO. 214 | Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Young Lawyers Division Announces New Board Members
MSO Names New
General Manager
Alberto
Gutierrez joined Memphis Symphony Orchestra as general manager. Gutierrez
previously served as operations manager for the San Antonio Symphony. After
graduating from the University of Oklahoma, he continued his studies at the
Cleveland Institute of Music and Catholic University in Washington.
The Young Lawyers
Division of the Memphis Bar Association announced the following newly elected
board members: Craig C. Conley, president; and Kirk Caraway, vice
president/president-elect. C. Michael Adams, Effie Bean, Margaret
Chesney, Jay Ebelhar,
Lee Harris, Barry McWhirter, Shannon
Toon, Monica Wharton and Stacie Winkler
were elected to the board of directors.
Gary Shorb received the 2004 Corporate Leadership award from
Volunteer Memphis Corporate Volunteer Council. Shorb,
president and chief executive officer of Methodist Healthcare, earned a
bachelors degree from Clemson University and a masters degree from the
University of Memphis.
Oscar C. Carr
III, an attorney at Glankler Brown PLLC, was named a fellow of the
Tennessee Bar Foundation. Carr earned a bachelors degree from the University
of Virginia and a law degree from Emory University. He has served as president
of the West Tennessee chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for
four years and currently serves on the foundations board of directors.
Jennifer
Powers Himes joined Husch & Eppenberger LLC as a member of the firm. Himes received a
bachelors degree from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign and a law
degree from the University of Memphis.
The Memphis
office of public relations firm McNeely Pigott & Fox announced the
following promotions to account supervisor: Shelley Durfee
and Dewanna Lofton.
William King
Self Jr. was certified by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization as an elder law specialist.
Self, an attorney with Apperson, Crump & Maxwell
PLC, also was named a certified elder law attorney by the National Elder Law
Foundation. He earned a law degree from Tulane University.
The following attorneys
at Burch, Porter & Johnson PLLC were selected for inclusion in the 2005-2006
edition of The Best Lawyers in America: C. Thomas
Cates, Joe M. Duncan, Jef Feibelman, J. Brook Lathram,
Allen T. Malone, Charles F. Newman, Joel H. Porter and R.
Michael Potter.
Emily Pera joined Ford & Harrison LLP as an associate. Pera earned a law degree from the University of California Hastings College of Law.
Kristine
Jacobs joined Thompson & Co. as vice president and director of client
services. Jacobs, a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi,
previously worked as group account director with St. John & Partners.
Jason Nickel
was appointed a financial representative with Strategic Financial Partners.
Nickel is a registered representative of New England Securities.
The following
individuals were promoted to account manager at archer>malmo: Mindy Scholz
and Karen McKenzie.
The Memphis Bar
Association announced that the organizations 2005 president will be Susan
Clark and 2005 vice president, Barbara Zoccola.
Keith D.
Archie joined Crye-Leike, Realtors, as an affiliate broker. Prior to
joining Crye-Leike, Archie worked in network support for J. C. Penney Co. Inc.
and as a property manager with Three Bear Properties.
Michael T. Orman was elected 2005 treasurer for the National
Association of Independent Free Appraisers. Orman,
president of Statewide Appraisal Service, has served on NAIFAs
board of directors for two years and is a past regional governor, state
director and chapter president.