People in the News

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Vatterott College announced two staff additions. |ret||ret||tab|

Melissa Williams joined the college as a medical assistant instructor. Williams is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky Uni-versity, where she earned a bachelor's of science de-gree in allied health. She previously has worked as a registered medical assistant and a cytotechnologist. |ret||ret||tab|

In her new position, Williams is responsible for the lab and theory instruction of pharmacology, medical assisting skills, injections, office procedures and law and ethics. |ret||ret||tab|

Sabrina Boyle joined the college as a medical office assistant instructor. She has training from the St. John's School of Emergency Technicians, and is responsible for the lab and theory instruction of insurance billing and coding, transcription, anatomy and physiology, and medical terminology. |ret||ret||tab|

Finance|ret||ret||tab|

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Jim R. Greene was appointed vice president of Old Missouri National Bank. He has more than 27 years of banking experience, including 14 years as president of Citizens Bank of Ava. In his new position, he is primarily responsible for commercial and real estate lending, as well as other types of lending.|ret||ret||tab|

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BKD LLP announced seven staff additions. |ret||ret||tab|

Scott T. Henderson, Merideth L. Taylor, Christina L. Yoakum, April A. Hornbuckle, Amy R. Kleiboeker, Matthew J. McLean and Rendi J. Thomlinson joined the firm's Springfield office as staff accountants. Each new staff accountant will assist with general tax, audit and accounting engagements. |ret||ret||tab|

Henderson is a 2001 graduate of Drury University, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in accounting and business administration.|ret||ret||tab|

Taylor is a summa cum laude graduate of Southwest Missouri State University. He holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting. |ret||ret||tab|

Yoakum is a 2000 summa cum laude graduate of SMSU with a bachelor of science degree in accounting, and she earned a master's degree in accounting from SMSU in 2001. |ret||ret||tab|

Hornbuckle is a 2001 graduate of Drury University with a bachelor of arts degree in accounting. |ret||ret||tab|

Kleiboeker and Thomlinson both are 2001 summa cum laude graduates of the University of Missouri-Columbia, with master's degrees in accounting. |ret||ret||tab|

McLean is a 2001 cum laude graduate of Drury University, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in accounting and business administration. |ret||ret||tab|

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Jared Robertson joined the Springfield office of Blackwell San-ders Peper Martin LLP to practice law in the firm's business and commercial litigation practice group. Robertson earned his juris doctorate from the University of Arkansas this year. He graduated magna cum laude from law school, and was a member of the Arkansas Law Review. Robertson earned a bachelor of arts degree from Brigham Young University.[[In-content Ad]]