Tucson Citizen Morgue, Part 1 (2006-2009)

A List: The People

Patricia Ellis

Peggy McClintic has been named vice president at National Bank of Arizona. McClintic, a career banker with more than 30 years of experience, will deliver business banking products and services to her clients. She will work from the bank’s Oro Valley office.

The Caliber Group has named Jessica H. Rich account manager and Internet Marketing consultant. She has more than 15 years’ experience managing client projects and building long-term relationships with business and media executives.

Amy Auman has been promoted to general manager and Mel Ford has been named executive chef at Old Pueblo Grille in the Foothills Mall. Auman began her career as a server at Metropolitan Grill and advanced to assistant manager. She also has worked in marketing and management at a number of other Metro Restaurants. Ford brings nearly 20 years of expertise in the culinary arts and restaurant management to this position, six of those working directly for Metro Restaurants.

Bruce Wright, associate vice president for Economic Development at the University of Arizona was awarded the Tony Certosimo Award by the Arizona-Mexico Commission. Recipients of the award embody the mission of the commission, as well as serve to further its success by promoting the border with Mexico.

Real estate agent Rob Lamb and his team have joined Long Realty Co. Lamb, formerly with Realty Executives, brings nearly 15 years of local real estate experience.

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International Southern Arizona Branch has announced its 2006-2007 board of directors: Virginia Anderson of Sonora Quest Laboratories, Mark Lindsey of The Westin La Paloma Resort & Spa, Sally Marchalonis of Long Realty, Moses Perez of Intuit and Rosi Vogel and Kevin Wood of Misys Healthcare Systems.

Craig Barker has been named vice president of financial services for the University of Arizona Foundation. Barker will oversee the foundation’s budgeting, contracting, financial reporting, human resources management, insurance/risk management, investing and real estate transactions. He came to the foundation from Ernst & Young, where he worked for nearly 16 years.

Don Lundbom has been named chief operating officer at Pepper Viner Homes.

Dr. Heather Cahan has been named assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of Arizona department of pediatrics. She also is part of University Physicians Healthcare. Cahan will provide care for ill newborn and premature babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at University Medical Center and Northwest Hospitals.

Steve Pender of Tucson’s Family Legacy Video was honored for excellence in business communication at the annual Cactus Quill Awards, sponsored by the Tucson chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Pender received a Cactus Quill Award of Excellence for the Family Legacy Video Producer’s e-newsletter. He received an Award of Merit for the Family Legacy Video Web site: www.familylegacyvideo.com.

The United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona welcomes Maureen Milazzo and Melissa Andrews to its AmeriCorps team. Milazzo, who works with First Focus on Kids program and the Youth Development Coalition, grew up on the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona and has worked with many nonprofit organizations. Andrews works with the Ready to Learn impact area on the Born Learning and Your It campaigns. She helped to incorporate and create – and also served on the board of directors – of the Southwest Action Research Organization.

Mick Rusing, a partner with the Rusing & Lopez law firm, is ranked among the top business litigators in America by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for 2006. Rusing’s practice is in general commercial litigation, including construction and employment litigation. He earned his law degree from Stanford University.

Jordan Schacht has been named director of marketing at 911 Collision Centers. Schacht has a diverse background in sales and marketing, including 18 years in the insurance industry. Schacht serves as chairman of the Big Brothers & Big Sisters board.

Dr. James Sowers, an international leader in diabetes research, will join the University of Arizona College of Medicine to develop the Comprehensive Diabetes Center.

The center will create a statewide consortium of investigators, educators and health-care providers that will focus on research, clinical care and education.

Lisa Fahey has been named vice president for donor services at the University of Arizona Foundation. Fahey, an experienced fundraiser, will manage the UA Foundation’s donor stewardship programs and events. Her office also will oversee the foundation’s principal gifts program and prospect management and research system.

Oschmann Employee Screening Services has three new staff members:

• Christy Marquez joins the team as a certified drug and alcohol testing collector and medical review officer assistant. Her responsibilities include drug and alcohol test collections, test result reporting and conducting random drug test selections. Marquez is a recent graduate of Pima Medical Institute’s Medical Assistant program.

• Steven Reed joins the team as a certified drug and alcohol testing collector and mobile on-site testing specialist. His responsibilities include drug and alcohol test collections, as well as overseeing the company’s expanded on-site collection service.

• Eileen Kane joins the team as an accounting clerk. She is responsible for the management of the office and all accounts payable and accounts receivable.

Northern Trust Bank has made changes in its Tucson operation:

• John L. Claps has been named chief operating officer and chief banking officer for the Southwest region, including Arizona and Colorado. He was previously vice president and accounting manager.

• Henry K. Boice, managing executive of the Tanque Verde office, has been named president for Tucson. He will work out of the Catalina foothills office.

• Robin B. Randall, vice president and trust administrator of the Tanque Verde office, has been named managing executive.

Kevin Pearce has been named vice president of business development for Wells Fargo Business Credit. Pearce is responsible for providing asset-based financing to middle-market businesses in Arizona and Nevada. He formerly was vice president of portfolio reporting for FINOVA.

Sally Garza Fernandez has been appointed to United Way of America’s board of governors. Garza Fernandez is the first person from southern Arizona to serve on United Way’s national board. She is president of The Fernandez Group, a consulting practice.

Wells Fargo has named Eddie Navarro a business specialist for its Southside Community Banking store. He joined Wells Fargo in 2005 as a personal banker.

Bob Brouillette of Sun Lighting has passed the American Lighting Association exam to become a certified lighting consultant. He is one of three people in Arizona to receive the designation.

Three local law students have been chosen by Snell & Wilmer for a summer internship that provides hands-on experience in transactional and litigation legal services. The three law students are:

• Kurt D. Dawn, who has an undergraduate degree in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara

• Melissa A. Marcus, a graduate of the University of Arizona Honors College, where she received an undergraduate degree in psychology with minors in biochemistry and political science

• Douglas Y. Ota, who received an undergraduate degree in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Arizona with a minor in political science

Drs. Andrea Mainman and David Mainman have opened Desert Bloom Obstetrics and Gynecology. The practice provides complete care for women including routine and high-risk obstetrical care, gynecologic examinations and gynecologic surgery. Andrea Mainman is a graduate of the University of Arizona and the UA College of Medicine. She completed her obstetrics and gynecology residency at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn., and practiced in South Carolina for 10 years. David Mainman graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Medical College of Wisconsin. He did his obstetrics and gynecology residency at Hartford Hospital. He practiced in South Carolina for 13 years.

Arizona Companies to Watch for 2006 has recognized the following:

Howard Stewart, president and CEO of AGM Container Controls Inc.; Robert Ashley, chairman, CEO and president of AmpliMed Corporation; Anne Waisman, president of Arizona Capacitors; David Grounds, president and CEO of Dorn Homes Inc.; Betty Jones, co-owner of Interior Expressions Design Showroom; Marilyn Steeber, president of Native Tele-Data Solutions; Chris Patterson, president and CEO of Protein Technologies Inc.; Roger Vogel, CEO of SEBRA; Rodger Ford, president and CEO of Syncardia; and Dennis Kenman, vice president and co-owner of Tucson Embedded Systems Inc.

Valerie Rice, senior public health specialist at Scientific Technologies Corp., will speak at the 20th annual GeoTec Conference in Canada. The GeoTec organizers invited Rice because of her expertise in animal disease surveillance and its potential to save human lives in the face of a global pandemic. Her presentation will be on “Human and Animal Disease Surveillance Systems.”

Wendy Grages has been named business specialist for Wells Fargo University Medical Community Banking store. Grages, who has worked at Intuit and Dun & Bradstreet, has experience serving business owners from small, family-owned establishments to large corporations.

Patricia A. Green, a shareholder with the law firm Waterfall, Economidis, Caldwell, Hanshaw & Villamana, received the Committee on Minorities and Women in the Law Award at the State Bar of Arizona’s annual convention. She received the award for furthering diversity and equal opportunity goals of the committee on Minorities and Women in the Law. Green practices family and appellate law.

Patty Folan has been named division manager for economic and market analysis at The Planning Center. She will oversee economic impact analysis, market definition and analysis, real estate strategy and implementation, and sales projections. Folan has 16 years of experience in economic development and market analysis.

Stephen Gilliland, the Arnold Lesk Chair in Leadership and head of the management and policy department at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management, has been elected a fellow in the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Gilliland joined the UA faculty in 1995. He has taught courses in human resource management and business strategy and developed a new course for Eller College focused on social entrepreneurship, in which students use business skills to address social issues.

Tierra Right of Way Services has named Eric Eugene Klucas principal investigator for its archaeological division. He will be responsible for supervising the research aspects of Tierra’s archaeological fieldwork projects. He has nearly 30 years’ experience in southwest Asia, western Europe and western North America. Klucas received his doctorate from the University of Arizona.

Novak Environmental Inc., a local woman-owned landscape architecture firm, has hired Cimarron Chacon as senior project manager. Chacon has 10 years’ experience in landscape architectural design and is a renowned trail planner and designer, having successfully completed many projects as a landscape architect for the Bureau of Land Management.

Gregory A. Miedema, owner of Dakota Builders Inc., has been named May “Remodelor of the Month” by the National Association of Home Builders Remodelors Council. This citation was announced in Qualified Remodeler magazine. Miedema was named “2005 Remodelor™ of the Year” by the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association in January and is the first remodeler to be named chairman of SAHBA. He established his Tucson firm in 1987 and has 11 people on his project team.

Michael Hall, chief executive and president of Take Charge America, has been honored by Students in Free Enterprise at the University of Arizona as Business Advisory Board Member of the Year. The SIFE award recognizes the board member who did the most outstanding job of assisting a SIFE team. SIFE is a nonprofit organization that gives college students the tools to learn the free-enterprise system in real-world working situations.

Ted Herman has been named an agent by the Arizona Land Advisors. He will be responsible for land sales to home builders, speculative investors and residential production lot developers in the Tucson metropolitan and greater Cochise County areas. Herman was previously a project manager for the city of Tucson Department of Urban Planning & Design and a program and project developer for the Arizona Conservation Stewards of Tucson.

The Greater Tucson Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners board for 2006-2007: Dana Rambow of AristoCare, president; Renee C. Burnett of Dream Books Inc., treasurer; Donna Rettig of MetLife Financial Services, secretary; and Lola Kakes of Professional Administrative Services, president-elect.