Dani Bowers has been appointed to Human Resources Manager at Paragon Bank. Bowers reports to Robert Shaw, chief executive officer at Paragon Bank. 

Adelman Law Firm has hired attorney Ormonde Landry Payne as a senior associate.

Leigh Mansberg has been named president and CEO of Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South.

Southern College of Optometry recently announced the addition of three optometrists to its faculty, Dr. Catherine Hogan, Dr. Laurel Roberts and Dr. Lily Wang.

Inferno has appointed Alex Breeding as account executive and Kimberly McManis as public relations account executive. 

Memphis-based financial advisory firm Century Wealth Management has been selected as a Future 50 RIA by Citywire USA. 

Shantelle Leatherwood, CEO of Memphis-based Christ Community Health Services, has been appointed to Gov. Bill Lee’s Health Care Modernization Task Force focused on improving Tennessee’s approach to health care.

Chris Douglas, COO of COMP Performance Group, has been re-elected to SEMA's Board of Directors. Douglas, a Memphis resident, is returning as a board member to serve a second three-year term to guide the speciality automotive aftermarket industry association. 

Carrie Cobb, CH Sullivan, Connie Stressel, and Debbie Reed have joined Pinnacle Financial Partners. 

Brazilian violist Amaro Dubois will join Iris Orchestra’s Artist Fellowship program for the 2019-20 season alongside cellist and Memphis-native Carrington Truehart, who will return for his second season. 

Memphis-based Pickering Firm Inc. has hired Stacey Conner as Human Resources coordinator and Sarah Carvalho as an architectural intern. 

The Memphis Library Foundation has named Christine M. Weinreich executive director.

Data Facts has hired David Estel as manager of Human Relations.

Memphis River Parks Partnership recently welcomed Van Turner and Gary Wunderlich to its board of directors. 

Youth Villages has added Ken Kimble to its team as the organization new managing director of development for regional growth. 

Red Door Wealth Management has added Genie Stringer as the fifth member to its team of advisors.

HopeWorks has named Lytania Black as director after receiving funding from the state of Tennessee to oversee adult education programming in Shelby County.

Il Hwan Kim, an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has been awarded more than $1.5 million for research that could eventually help patients with disorders such as schizophrenia and autism.

Don Glays has been named president of the Tennessee Builders Education Foundation, a recently formed nonprofit that aims to correct the shortage of skilled workers in West Tennessee by reintroducing career technical education into local high schools.

Col. Zachary L. Miller will take command of the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, at a change of command ceremony Friday, July 19. He succeeds Col. Michael A. Ellicott Jr.

Dr. Glen Steele, Southern College of Optometry’s longest-serving faculty member and a co-founder of InfantSEE, has been inducted into the National Optometry Hall of Fame.

Alicia Golston has been promoted to dean of students at Rhodes College, where she most recently served as associate dean for student experience.

The American Association of Community Colleges has appointed Southwest Tennessee Community College President Tracy D. Hall to its Commission on Economic Workforce Development.

With the gender wage gap and sexual harassment in the workplace coming to the forefront from the #MeToo movement, a group of local executives has partnered with the Greater Memphis Chamber to launch a council focused on women in the workplace. 

Adrian Bond, director of community engagement at Caissa Public Strategy LLC, has become the company’s newest partner.