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Greitens picks local executives for state posts

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Among a dozen appointments announced yesterday, Gov. Eric Greitens selected two local businesspeople for state positions.

The appointees are Gary Metzger of Simmons First National Corp. (Nasdaq: SFNC) and Melissa Gelner of Askinosie Chocolate LLC.

Greitens chose Metzger, Simmons Bank’s regional chairman for Missouri and Kansas, as a member of the Missouri State Employees' Retirement System Board of Trustees, according to a news release.

The 11-member board administers the state’s MOSERS plan, which provides retirement, life insurance and long-term disability benefits to most state employees, including elected officials. MOSERS had 113,804 members and contributions of $390.9 million for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, according to its website.
 
Gelner, Askinosie Chocolate’s chief kinship officer and Chocolate University executive director, was chosen for a position on the Missouri State Board of Education, according to the release.

The eight members of the board chosen by the governor serve staggered, eight-year terms, meaning one person’s term expires each year. The board sets the standards, and approves courses and professional programs, for the state's public and private higher education institutions. Its duties also include defining academic performance standards and assessment requirements for public schools and accrediting local school districts, according to its website.

Greitens also picked a Missouri State University teacher working at its Mountain Grove campus for a position. Teresa Acord, an Eminence resident who works as an adult education and literary instructor for MSU, was tapped as Shannon County’s public administrator, according to the release.

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