Acadian Companies Chairman & CEO Richard Zuschlag recently announced that Justin Back will be appointed president of Acadian Ambulance Service, effective Nov. 1, 2020.

Waste Pro recently welcomed Richard Sarac as its new Division Manager in Memphis, Tennessee.

Eclectic Eye, a Memphis destination for optometry services and eyewear needs, has hired Lavender Love as an eyewear architect. Love reports to Jonathan Underwood, retail manager at Eclectic Eye.

Alta and Jim Simpson have rejoined Marx-Bensdorf, REALTORS®. The duo was previously at the firm for fifteen years, beginning in the late 1990s.

Jessie Wiley has joined Shelby Residential and Vocational Services (SRVS) as the agency’s Director of Development and Public Relations.

Butler Snow attorney James E. Bailey III has been named to the 2020 Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers list.

Blake Parker has joined Hi-Speed Industrial Service as the company’s Director of Motor Shop Operations in its Millington, Tennessee location.

Palmer Home for Children recently announced that Lauren Waites has joined the organization as Vice President of Communications

Amber Jennings, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Herff College of Engineering, has received a 2020 National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Development Award to design materials with a novel synthetic biofilm-disrupting molecule bound to their surfaces.

Crye-Leike Real Estate Services recently announced that Brittany Fox is now affiliated with its Atoka branch office as a licensed Realtor.

Shelby Betts has been promoted to Sales and Team leader at Whirks.

Pat Keel, who since 2016 has served as chief financial officer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, has been promoted to the expanded role of executive vice president and chief administrative and financial officer.

University of Memphis assistant professor Ranganathan Gopalakrishnan has received a $750,000 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) EARLY CAREER Award for his research project “Thermodynamics and Transport Models of Strongly Coupled Dusty Plasmas.”

Local CPA firm, Patrick Accounting, recently announced the addition of five new employees including a new senior accountant, two new staff accountants, administrative support, and an accounting and tax manager.

Lehman-Roberts Co. and sister company Memphis Stone & Gravel, a leader in the highway paving, construction, asphalt and aggregate industry, recently promoted Melanie Stinson to Human Resources Manager.

Seeding Success, a Memphis-based nonprofit that works to improve outcomes for children in Memphis and Shelby County from cradle to career, recently welcomed Reggie Davis as its new Beyond the Classroom Director.

Chrissy Geibel has joined Dunavant as Senior Vice President of Domestic Logistics, where she will lead and grow the division while ensuring superior solutions and customer service across agriculture, chemical, food & beverage, automotive and retail sectors.

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare recently announced two key executive leadership appointments.

Crye-Leike Real Estate Services recently announced that Celiesse Thomas is now affiliated with Crye-Leike’s Germantown - Forest Hill Irene branch office as a licensed Realtor. Thomas will serve the residential real estate needs of buyers and sellers throughout Shelby and surrounding counties.

Kelsey Mankel, PhD student in Communication Sciences & Disorders (Neuroscience concentration) at the University of Memphis, was recently awarded an NIH F31 NRSA fellowship from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for her project “Neural bases of successful auditory learning.”

Crye-Leike Real Estate Services Realtor Chad Henson recently earned the e-PRO® Certification from the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR).

Lehman-Roberts Co. and sister company Memphis Stone & Gravel, a leader in the highway paving, construction, asphalt and aggregate industry, has promoted Pitt Kimbrough to Incoming Materials Manager. 

The Seam, a leading provider of agribusiness software and trading solutions, recently announced the appointment of Beth Wilson as Director of Marketing and Public Relations. 

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has named Chelsea Johnson as its director of community relations and BlueCross Foundation. 

Maleelo Shamambo, a neuroscience major and French minor at Rhodes College, is one of only 47 graduating college seniors nationwide to receive the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which provides a $36,000 grant for one year of independent study and travel outside the United States.