Who's Who
Michelle Rawlings has been named associate registrar for Transylvania University. Shane McGuire and Derek Terrell have been named admissions counselors.
Kelley R. Williams has joined the Lexington office of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP as an associate in the litigation department. Williams previously practiced in the Atlanta, Ga., office of Alston & Bird LLP.
Jim Clark, president and CEO of LexArts, has been elected by his peers as chair of Americans for the Arts new Private Sector Council. The council's mission is to increase awareness, volunteerism and recognition of the values of arts among the business, philanthropic and nongovernmental sectors of the economy and to advance private sector support for the arts in America. Americans for the Arts is the national service organization for the more than 3,000 local arts agencies (arts councils) throughout the country.
Fifth Third Bank has announced the following new employees: Chad Kobes, retail licensed personal banker at the Nicholasville Road Banking Center; Beverly Wheat, mortgage loan originator servicing the Main Street Banking Center; and Michael Terry, mortgage loan originator at the Nicholasville Road and Versailles Road Banking Centers.
Kudos
Ann Marie van den Hurk, APR, has been recognized for her work on behalf of Jennings Manufacturing Consultants (JMC), a Lexington-based, national-known quality control company for the automotive industry. Branding JMC received second place honors from both the Public Relations Society of America Thoroughbred Chapter and the Delaware Press Association Communications Contest.
IMG Associations, a leading association management company, has earned an APEX Award of Excellence for its work on behalf of the Receptive Services Association of America (RSAA). The RSAA newsletter was selected for an Award of Excellence in the category of most improved newsletter.
Transylvania University's Thomson Hall is the first residence hall in Kentucky to earn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's prestigious ENERGY STAR certification for superior energy efficiency and environmental protection. The certification, one of many sustainability and energy efficiency efforts undertaken as part of the university's Crimson Goes Green initiative, signifies that the building's energy performance rates in the top 25 percent of facilities nationwide.
GRW, a locally-based national engineering, architecture and planning firm, was recently ranked in its field by three industry trade journals. Engineering-News Record ranked GRW among the "Top 200 Environmental Firms." Building Design + Construction included the firm in its "Giants 300" list of U.S. firms that designed or constructed the largest volume of nonresidential buildings last year. Additionally, GRW was ranked by Public Works as one of the largest architecture, engineering, and construction firms serving the government market. GRW has more than 280 employees located in nine offices in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee and Texas.
Frost Brown Todd has been named among the 2009 Working Mother and Flex-Time Lawyers Best Law Firms for Women. Law firms on the list were recognized for their continued attention to work-life and women's issues, as well as the increased use of flex-time, reduced-hour and other family-friendly policies to ensure the future success of the profession.