MERRICK & CO.: Appointed Mary Horan as the human- resources manager. Most recently, Horan was president of her own human-resources consulting firm. Merrick also named Deborah Schindler corporate- communications manager.
POLSINELLI SHUGHART PC: Announced the addition of patent attorney David McCrosky. He previously served as a patent examiner for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in medical-device technologies.
STATE OF COLORADO: Gov. Bill Ritter appointed several Coloradans to a variety of statewide boards and commissions, including Gilbert Ortiz Sr. of Pueblo to the Colorado Transportation Commission; Joel S. Rosenstein, James M. Hahn and John A. Blumberg of Denver, David J. Myler of Carbondale and Anita Padilla-Fitzgerald of Littleton to the Colorado Housing and Financing Authority board of directors; Jill Ozarski of Denver and Douglas L. Ring of Pueblo to the Colorado Real Estate Commission; David M. Thomas, Rebecca Swiney and Francisco R. Cordova of Denver and Lynne Neese of Lakewood to the State Rehabilitation Advisory Council; and Dr. Jay Want of Denver and Karen Lee Zink of Durango to the Center of Improving Value in Health Care Steering Committee.
JE DUNN CONSTRUCTION: Added Ryan Dorsey, assistant estimator; Dane Hix, project engineer; and Kelsey Fuhrman, a project coordinator.
U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT: Selected Greg Shoop as the district manager for the newly created Colorado Front Range District.
QUADNA: Promoted BJ Verkler to after-market sales and service manager and Brent Benning to project manager.
THE KEMPE FOUNDATION FOR THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT: Appointed Ruby Kadota, Martha Rubi, Dylan Taylor and Kareina Westlund to the board of directors.
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