COLORADO CASUALTY: Announced the appointment of Keith Braxton as president and chief executive. Braxton replaces Donald Frette, who will retire this month.
COLORADO SUPREME COURT NOMINATING COMMISSION: Announced that Dick Holme, a partner with Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP, was appointed to the commission by Chief Justice Mary J. Mullarkey. The commission reviews applications for judgeship vacancies on the Colorado Court of Appeals and the state Supreme Court.
IMA OF COLORADO INC.: Hired Michael Brown as an account executive in the technology and life-sciences practice.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER: Announced that professors Jeffrey Forbes and Steve Nerem of the College of Engineering and Applied Science’s aerospace-engineering- sciences department and physics professor Mihaly Horanyi were elected as fellows of the American Geophysical Union for 2008.
THE COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY: Appointed Samuel Betters, Housing Authority of the city of Loveland; Kevin Marchman, National Organization of African Americans in Housing; and Mark O’Con nor, FirstBank Holding Co., as board members.
SOCIETY FOR MINING, METALLURGY AND EXPLORATION: Honored Stanley Dempsey, executive chairman of Royal Gold Inc., with the 2007 William Lawrence Saunders Gold Medal Award, in recognition of distinguished achievement in mining.
JOHNSTONWELLS PUBLIC RELATIONS: Appointed Rodney D. Bell as a senior counselor and director of business development.
LES DAMES D’ESCOFFIER: The Colorado chapter elected Joan Brewster, Colorado Chefs Association, president; Nancy Merrill, attorney and food historian, first vice president; Christine Dozal, consultant, and Kimberly Lord Stewart, food editor and author, second vice presidents; Mary Mino, Colorado Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, treasurer; Elena Clement, pastry chef and instructor at Johnson & Wales University, secretary; and Holly Arnold Kinney, owner of the Fort restaurant, board chairman.
TECHDISCOVERY: Named Chris Medina regional vice president of operations for the Rocky Mountain area.
MARCH OF DIMES: The Colorado chapter named Kyle Samuel, senior vice president of Aon Risk Services Inc. of Colorado, as the outstanding board member.
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