Joel Villaflor has joined Connie Miller and Group CJ as vice president of the creative marketing and communication firm located in downtown Lexington.
Alltech recently appointed Nathan Canavera to the position of marketing coordinator for Alltech's Lexington Brewing Company.
Oscar Minks has joined Key Technology as the company's new security technology specialist. Minks will be responsible for securing the IT networks for Forcht Group of Kentucky and its companies, and writing policies for audits and internal procedures pertaining to network security.
Commerce Lexington Inc. has announced the addition of Leah Hagans as administrative specialist. Damon Mazza has also been hired by Commerce Lexington Inc. as an account executive.
The following new appointments have been made to the Board of Directors of Women Leading Kentucky: Elisa Bruce, Latino development manager and assistant vice president for Fifth Third Bank of Central Kentucky; Victoria Carling, vice president, commercial & private client group, American Founders Bank; and Nawanna Privett, Kentucky Department of Education. New appointments to the Advisory Council include: Ellen Gregory, COO, Preston-Osborne; and Linda Rumpke, president, Chase Bank.
The following have been elected officers of the Kentucky Board of Examiners & Registration of Landscape Architects for 2008-2009: Billy F. Van Pelt, Lexington, president, and Anthony L. Barrett, Lexington, secretary-treasurer. Other Board members include David M. Burkholder, Louisville; John L. Carman, Lexington and Lucille B. Carloftis, Livingston.
David L. Hill has announced the opening of the Law Office of David L. Hill, PLLC, at 167 West Main Street, Suite 1204, in Lexington.
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5ifth Element Creative, a Lexington-based communications, consulting, and creative design firm, has been selected to receive five (5) 2008 American Graphic Design Awards. 5ifth Element Creative's designs were selected from among 10,000 entries nationwide to receive the award, presented by Graphic Design USA, a leading news magazine for creative professionals.
Gov. Steve Beshear announced that Adam H. Edelen, his chief of staff, has been named one of the 2008 Ten Outstanding Young Americans by the United States Junior Chamber (Jaycees).
Gary Van Zant, a professor of internal medicine in the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine, has been named the recipient of a Senior Scholar Award from the Ellison Medical Foundation to continue his research on the role of the microRNA 290 gene cluster in stem cell and organismal aging.
Kentucky Small Business Development Center (KSBDC) State Director Becky Naugle, Ph.D. announced that Millinda Fowles has been selected as the 2008 Sutton Landry State Star of the Kentucky SBDC.
Forcht Bank has received a five-star "superior" ranking for the sixth consecutive quarter from Florida based BauerFinancial, Inc., the nation's leading independent bank rating and research firm.
Deborah Drury, ASID, KYCID and owner of Deborah Drury Interior Design in Lexington, has been awarded first place in two American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) design competition categories: the Mary Louise Schum Award, commercial retail design, for Bluegrass Bride located in Lexington; and the Steven Ely Award, Asian/contemporary design of the north gallery of a local residence.
The winners of Republic Bank & Trust Company's third annual We CARE Awards are: Messer Construction Company, construction, architecture & engineering category; Walden's Photography, local retailer category; Trane, manufacturing & publishing category; Greeenebaum, Doll & McDonald, professional services category; Frankfort Regional Medical Center, health care category; Kentucky American Water, public works, services and education category; and Ashland, Inc., corporate caring category.