NEW HIRES/PROMOTIONS
Sara Jacobi has been promoted to director at the firm of Blue & Co., LLC.
Fifth Third Bank has announced the following promotions: Kerry Bickett (financial center manager), Tony Brown (investment executive) and Jacob Robinson (financial center manager) to vice president; Peter Costich (commercial banking), William Puckett (mortgage) and Tyler Gossett (mortgage) to assistant vice president; and Magda Perez (investment advisors), Kenneth Sadler (mortgage) and Tracy Winckler-Hulberg (financial center manager) to officer.
Mary Ellen Slone has joined Georgetown College as executive scholar and marketing director.
The Nest Center for Women, Children & Families has added two new staff members -Beth Dotson Brown as communications and grants director and Carol Whipple as development director.
Bob Armstrong has joined United Bank as senior vice president and chief credit officer. David Rice has been promoted to branch manager of United Bank's Hamburg office in Lexington. Elizabeth Hobbs has been promoted to vice president and senior loan officer of United Bank in Jessamine County.
Urban Collage, Inc., an urban design consulting firm, has announced the recent promotion of both Louis Johnson and Soumi Basu to senior urban designer.
NEW HIRES/PROMOTIONS
Mary Adrianne Davis, Garrard County Public Schools, has been named as president of the Garrard County Chamber of Commerce, and Joe Brown,
Friends of Paint Lick, has been named vice president. Board members for 2012 include: Deborah Messenger, Halcomb's Knob Farm and Field to Fork Festival; Sam Frazier, Christian Care Center; Monty Major, First Southern National Bank; Paul Reynolds, Garrard County Water Assoc.; Elizabeth Geers, Whitaker Bank; SaraVard Von Gruenigan, Central Kentucky Ag Credit Assoc.; Larry Prinssen, SAS Global, Inc; Mike Jackson, Ephraim McDowell Fort Logan Hospital; Todd Montgomery, State Farm Insurance; Melanie Arnold, Garrard Central Record; Tammy Jeffries, Central Kentucky Federal Bank; David Land, David Land Tax Service; Chris Thomason, Solid Waste Division; Marvin Marshbank, Farmers National Bank; Beth Wesley, Wesley Law Office; and Karl Glafenhein, Allison Abrasives.
KUDOS
Leadership Kentucky, the premier statewide leadership development organization in Kentucky, has announced that its president, Diana B. Ratliff, of Midway, Ky., has been chosen as one of 12 participants in the Non-Profit Center for Excellence's 2012 Leadership Network.