COLORADO WATER RESOURCES AND POWER DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY: Gov. Bill Ritter recently named Steven Sims, a Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck shareholder, to the board of directors. Sims will represent the South Platte drainage basin.
BUSINESS INSURANCE: The trade magazine named Chelley Schaper, senior vice president and client-service executive with Lockton Cos. in Denver, as one of the leading women in the insurance industry.
COLORADO STATE BANK AND TRUST: Announced that H. Shaw Thomas, senior vice president and manager of the CSBT Real Estate Banking Group, and Polly B. Lestikow, president of Closet Factory, have joined the board of directors.
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: Announced that Trevor Daly, a student of the business school, was recently named one of six finalists in the 2008 International Business Simulation Challenge.
DONELSON, CIANCIO, GOODWIN, & JUAREZ P.C.: Named Brandon S. Culter a senior associate, with a focus on estate and business planning.
MCCOY SALES CORP.: Appointed John Niemi as chief executive and president.
FAEGRE & BENSON LLP: Named Brandee L. Caswell, Jason Day and Lynn M. Kornfeld as partners in the Denver office and Richard L. Reichstein a partner in the Boulder office.
COLORADO PUBLIC TELEVISION, KBDI-CHANNEL 12: Appointed James McDonald, founder and chief executive of Wind River Group, to the board of directors.
LUXE GROUP REAL ESTATE: Added Mark Adcock as a broker to its Cherry Creek North office.
ARNOLD & PORTER LLP: Named Michelle Albert an associate in the Denver office.
FIRST FINANCIAL EQUITY CORP.: Announced that Brian H. Johnson joined the investment firm as senior vice president, investments.
ARTHOUSE DESIGN: Promoted Clara Tompkins to project manager.
THE WOMEN’S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: Named Kelley A. Bergelt, a lawyer with Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe PC, as chair of the empowerment council.
COMCAST MEDIA CENTER: John Roy has joined as vice president, cable operations and engineering.
USA SWIMMING: Promoted Matt Farrell to chief marketing officer.
STETTNER MILLER PC: Elisa Chen has joined as an associate.
DORSEY & WHITNEY: Hired Brad Hattenbach as of counsel in the patent group.
LIDA360: The branding, marketing and communications firm has been launched by Lida Citroën.
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