Carolyn J. Nagel

Candace Sneed

Kristina Beuckens

John Jaeger

Laura Whatley

Barry Marshall

Barry Marshall has been named administrator of clinical business development at Methodist University Hospital. Marshall has worked at Methodist since 2004 as administrator of the Transplant Institute. Prior to joining Methodist, he worked at the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati where he was the administrator of transplant services and later the director of transplant services and managed care. He received a bachelor's degree in health care administration in 1999 from Columbus, Ohio-based Franklin University and a master's degree in business administration in 2005 from Caldwell, Idaho-based Canyon College.

archer>malmo has hired Laura Whatley as account coordinator and John Jaeger as vice president and group creative director.

Oscar C. Carr III has been named a fellow of Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society. Carr, an attorney at Glankler Brown PLLC, focuses his practice on business, construction, environmental and other civil litigation. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the field of personal injury law and in Mid-South Super Lawyers in the field of business litigation. Carr is a member of the mediation panel of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

Michael Curb, founder and chair of Curb Records, and Wendy Kopp, president and founder of Teach for America, each will receive honorary doctorates in humanities from Rhodes College at the 158th commencement Saturday.

Dr. Michael Kastan, director of the Cancer Center at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, has been named the recipient of the 47th annual AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award for his leadership in groundbreaking studies of cellular responses to DNA damage. The American Association for Cancer Research gives the award each year.

Melissa Butler McCowen, coordinator of disability and career services at Rhodes College, recently received the Dona Sparger Professional Service Award at the Tennessee Association on Higher Education and Disability Conference. McCowen is the first recipient of the award to be from a private college.

Graham Dewit and Catherine Douglass, seniors at White Station High School, have been selected in the first group of 2007 National Merit Scholarship winners by the National Merit Scholarship Corp.

Crye-Leike Realtors has added two agents to its Whitehaven branch. Affiliate broker Karma Lee will work in and around Shelby, Fayette, Tipton and Lauderdale counties specializing in residential, first-time homebuyer and new-home construction real estate services. Mary W. Sharp will work in and around Shelby, DeSoto and Fayette counties, specializing in residential, investment, relocation, new home and first-time homebuyer services.

David Brown of Ladd's received the Pacesetter Award presented by Jacobsen, a Textron Inc. company, as part of its 2006 Dealer Awards. Jacobsen manufactures a full range of turf maintenance equipment and vehicles for golf courses, sports fields and municipal grounds. The Dealer Awards recognizes the individuals and dealers of Jacobsen products who exceed company expectations.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Developmental Neurobiology staff members Dr. Samantha Cicero and Dr. Jian Zuo have been awarded research funding through The Hartwell Foundation. Cicero, who joined St. Jude in 2006, will receive a two-year fellowship to research retinoblastoma, a malignant tumor of the retina. Zuo, who has been with St. Jude since 1998, will receive three years of funding to research neurodegenerative disorders.

Cadence Bank recently made the following officer promotions: Paul Lenhard, senior vice president, commercial lending; Carter W. Aldinger, banking officer, construction lending; and Kristina Beuckens, assistant vice president, commercial lending.

Candace Sneed has joined the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (ECD) as a business enterprise resource office specialist in its Memphis office. Prior to joining ECD, Sneed worked for six years with the City of Memphis Workforce Investment Network as liaison for the Local Workforce Investment Board.

Affiliate broker Carolyn J. Nagel has joined the Crye-Leike Realtors Arlington office and will work in and around Shelby and Fayette counties. Samantha Brunz and Casey Lynn Rose have joined Crye-Leike's Millington office and will work in and around Tipton and Shelby counties. Brunz will specialize in residential real estate and Rose will focus on residential and commercial.

Wilson Air Center - Memphis recently was named the No. 1 Corporate Aviation Support Facility in the 2007 Aviation International News survey. The facility is the only one ever to be named No. 1 for eight consecutive years.