Accounting BKD LLP promoted Rebecca Barrientos, Michael Holth, Jessica Cullen and Satyam Sthapit to senior accountants and Laura Robb to senior consultant. Sthapit is a member of the firm’s manufacturing and distribution group, and Barrientos, Holth, Cullen and Robb are members of its health care group.
Banking Tim Henry joined Old Missouri Bank as an assistant vice president specializing in agricultural lending. Working out of the bank’s West Sunshine branch, Henry has 10 years of lending experience.
Education The Princeton Review named Missouri State University among 155 of the best colleges in the Midwest in its online feature, 2014 Best Colleges Region by Region.
Colby Fronterhouse, Nixa Junior High assistant principal, was named Assistant Principal of the Year for Southwest Missouri by the Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals. The honor recognizes a positive impact on education and advocacy for students, and risks taken to improve student learning.
Nixa’s Early Learning Center was selected as a finalist for Early Childhood Program of the Year for by the Missouri School Boards’ Association. The award will be presented at the MSBA conference in October.
Health Care Drs. Charlie Rasmussen, Robert Vorhies and Craig Randall joined CoxHealth Medical Center Branson. Rasmussen works at CoxHealth Family Medicine and Obstetrics; Vorhies provides vascular and endovascular surgeries at CoxHealth Cardiology-Branson; and Randall is an emergency room physician in Branson.
Erin Hieb-Morgan, a family nurse practitioner, joined CoxHealth Family Medicine in Kimberling City, and Danielle Lee, a nurse practitioner, joined CoxHealth Urgent Care in Branson.
Christie Drew, paramedic and community outreach coordinator for Cox EMS Christian County, was named Outstanding Paramedic of the Year by the Missouri Emergency Nurses Association.
Registered nurse Cindy Potts, manager of CoxHealth’s child-adolescent psychiatry unit, was elected to serve as secretary of the Missouri Chapter of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.
Law Attorney Branden Twibell joined the firm of Twibell, Johnson, Johnson & Twibell as a partner. Twibell, who previously worked four years with the Missouri State Public Defender’s office, holds a bachelor’s in marketing and an MBA from MSU, as well as a law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School.
Five attorneys from the Springfield office of Polsinelli PC were recognized on The Best Lawyers in America list: Jay Dade, Phillip Garrison, John Holstein, Thomas O’Neal and Michael Textor. The recognition is based on peer-review surveys of almost 50,000 attorneys.
President Barack Obama nominated attorney Doug Harpool of Baird, Lightner, Millsap & Harpool PC to a judgeship in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Harpool was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives 1983–1992.
Marketing DL Media added Mike Owens and Jeff Jourdain to its creative services team to assist clients with website design and maintenance. Owens holds a bachelor’s in interactive new media from MSU and Jourdain has six years of Web development experience.
Media Cares Magazine hired Matthew Evans as director of membership and sales. Evans has seven years of experience in the nonprofit sector handling development, communications, public relations and strategic planning.
Small Business The Branson/Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce & Convention and Visitors Bureau named ITEC Attractions Inc. the 2013 Small Business of the Year and Christian nonprofit Jesus Was Homeless the Charity of the Year.
The 20-year-old ITEC Attractions, owners of the IMAX Entertainment Complex and other Branson properties, employs 300 and generates annual revenue of $16.5 million.
Jesus Was Homeless, which was established in 2009, was honored for work that includes delivering sack lunches to the weekly stay motels and area homeless people.[[In-content Ad]]
