• The Department of Regulatory Agencies has contracted with Virginia Morrison Love to act as legislative liaison for the department for the 2012 legislative session and assist with business community relations.
• The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art Rocky Mountain Chapter named Andy Maslin, Haddonstone (USA) Ltd.; Dana Meacham, Luxe Magazine; and Elizabeth Jumel, Jumel Public Relations, to its board of directors.
• Pat Schlotter (Hardy) was recently named president of Everest College’s Thornton campus.
• Colorado State University named Mike Hooker, a 21-year TV news veteran, as the new executive director of public affairs and communications.
• Colorado Casualty announced the appointment of Lucas J. Bills as president and chief executive officer of the commercial lines company.
• Stacy A. Carpenter was honored recently with the 2011 Richard Marden Davis Award, recognizing her outstanding service to the legal community as well as civic and charitable leadership.
• Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons welcomed Eric K. Nelson as special counsel to the firm’s Casper, Wyo. office.
• Sage Hospitality hired Jennifer Long to serve as director of interactive marketing and promoted Katherine Davis to public relations and social media manager.
• Jefferson County Economic Development Corp. elected E.F. “Buddy” Douglass, president of FirstBank in Lakewood, as board chair, and Fred Baker, United Properties, as vice chair. Mike Partheymuller will serve as past chair. Other elected officers include Cynthia Stevenson, superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools, board treasurer, and Jennifer Friednash, Fairfield and Woods, board secretary.
• The Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado named Barry Wagner, president; Mark Pribramsky, vice president; Kevin Overley, secretary/treasurer; and Judd Bryarly, past president. At-large directors are Bill Cary, Nate Caldwell, Kelly Gouge, Zachary Johnson, Dan Long, Peter Milstein, Dean Murphy and Polly Bailey-Rule.
• Liquid Compass hired Stephen Guillot as chief operating officer and Thomas Callahan as senior vice president of sales.
• Burleson announced that 12 attorneys have recently joined its newest location in Denver. They are Jacob Baer, Margaret Boyle, Matthew Collins, Jeremy Cottrell, Frances Folin, Joe Gilmore, Michael Jewell, Christopher McGrath, Ronald Opsahl, Andrew Rubin, Caroline Shanor and Victoria Shupe.
• 90Octane hired Mary Harpin as storyteller, Trevor Nelson as account manager and Jake Lanier and Dale Walker as account coordinators.
• Tara Crosby has joined The Zall Co. as a broker associate.
• Cassidy Turley announced that Travis Young has joined the firm as managing director in the Denver office.
