The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art appoints seven new board members

NEW HIRES

Shoemaker & Haaland Professional Engineers, with offices in Coralville and Cedar Rapids, hired Greg Annis (see photo) as a civil engineer.

UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Foundation has hired Amy McKelvy (see photo) as director of development and Jennifer Sweeney (see photo) as annual giving director. Both previously worked for Junior Achievement. Karen Martin (see photo), formerly with Klinger Paint, was hired as gift shop manager.

UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids, hired Marcy Clark (see photo), previously with the University of Iowa, as 3 West nurse manager.

Per Mar Security Services, with offices in Cedar Rapids, hired Jim Cook (see photo) as electronic security area sales manager for the Cedar Rapids/Quad Cities area.

The City of Marion hired Jennifer Canaday (see photo) as administrative clerk in its building department. Canaday formerly worked for the City of Cedar Rapids Building Department. Also Seth Kjormoe (see photo), previously with a consulting firm in Fort Dodge, and Dillon Feldmann (see photo) were hired as project engineers in the engineering department.

Barry Green (see photo) has joined MidWestOne Bank, Iowa City, as a real estate banking officer. Green was previously with First Mortgage Co. in Des Moines.

Dr. Bharat Jenigiri (see photo), a board certified and fellowship trained oncologist, will join PCI Hematology & Oncology in September. His office will be located at Physicians' Clinic of Iowa in Cedar Rapids.

The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation has hired Carrie Walker (see photo) as non-profit network coordinator. Walker was previously with Big Brothers Big Sisters and Henry Russell Bruce.

Acumen, an employee benefit firm in Cedar Rapids, has hired Jeff Overton (see photo) and Nick Holmes (see photo) as benefit advisers.

Skogman Companies has hired Tiffani Conrey (see photo) as chief financial officer. Conrey was previously with ImOn Communications.

Nicholas Timm of Iowa City has joined Bosch Financial in Cedar Rapids, a branch of AXA Advisers.

BOARD MEMBERS

The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art has appointed seven new board members effective July 1: Kristen Eddins, TrueNorth Companies; Wayne Flory, Rockwell Collins; Karen Harpole, United Fire Group; Dr. James Levett, Physicians' Clinic of Iowa; Shawn Lueth, Shive Hattery; Dave McInally, Coe College; and Bill Stamats, Stamats Communications. Four members are renewing: John Ballard, Griffith, Ballard & Co.; Kissy Heins and Lisa Thirnbeck, community volunteers; and Quinn Pettifer, We Create Here/The Gazette. Retiring members are Bradd Brown, OPN Architects; Doug Elliott, East Central Iowa Council of Governments; Randy Ramlo, United Fire Group; Bonnie Schmidt, community volunteer; and Mary Suess, Krystal Konsulting.

Lindsay Greiner of Keota, who had been appointed to finish an unexpired At-Large term, was re-elected an At-Large director by the Iowa Soybean Association board of directors. District directors serving in Eastern Iowa are Ed Ulch of Solon and Benjamin Schmidt of Iowa City, District 6; and John Heisdorffer of Keota, District 9.

CERTIFICATION

Dr. Ann Marie Machlab, medical director of Iowa City Hospice, earned the hospice medical director certified credential by the Hospice Medical Director Certification Board.

KUDOS

The following attorneys in the Corridor have been chosen for inclusion in the 2015 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. From Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, Cedar Rapids, are: Connie Alt, Brian Bergstrom, John Bickel, Linda Kirsch, Kevin Caster, Diane Kutzko, Michael McDermott, Terri Davis, Dennis McMenimen, Laurie Dawley, Dean Einck, James Nemmers, Steven Pace, Richard Fry, Thomas Peffer, Richard Garberson, Nancy Penner, William Prowell, William Hochstetler, Robert Houghton, Jennifer Rinden, William Shuttleworth, Donald Johnson, Gary Streit and Mark Zaiger. From Bradley & Riley of Cedar Rapids and Iowa City are: Kelly Baier, Pat Courtney, Michael Denney, Brad Hart, Tim Hill, Maureen Kenney, Janice Kerkove, Bill McCartan, Bill Neppl, Byron Riley, Joseph Schmall, Greg Seyfer, Dean Spina and Vernon Squires, all of Cedar Rapids, and Paul Burns and Don Thompson, both of Iowa City. From Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman, Cedar Rapids, are: Scott Bogguss, Matthew Brandes, Philip Brooks, Christine Conover, James Gerk, Larry Gutz, Lynn Hartman, Stephen Holtman,

Kathleen Kleiman, David Kubicek, Eric Lam, Darrel Morf, Paul Morf, Iris Muchmore, Mark Ogden, James Peters, Mark Roberts, Randal Scholer, James Shipman, Roger Stone, Kevin Visser, Kyle Wilcox and Thomas Wolle.

The following Corridor attorneys were named Best Lawyers 2015 Cedar Rapids Lawyers of the Year. From Shuttleworth & Ingersoll: Brian Bergstrom (see photo), Dennis McMenimen (see photo) and Richard Garbeson (see photo); from Bradley & Riley: Donald Thompson, Maureen Kenney and Vernon Squires; from Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman: Christine Conover (see photo), Kevin Visser (see photo), Lynn Hartman (see photo), Paul Morf (see photo) and Randal Scholer (see photo).

Jessi Steege of the Iowa City VA Health Care System received a Patriot Award from the Employer Support of The Guard and Reserve. The award recognizes Steege's support of her employees serving in the National Guard and Reserve.

Jane Marie Wold, catering manager at Hy-Vee East in Iowa City, has received the company's Legendary Customer Service Award.

Honkamp Krueger & Co., Hiawatha, has been named an IPA 100 firm and IPA 100 Fastest-Growing Firm by INSIDE Public Accounting. The company is ranked 74th, up from No. 81 in 2013.

SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

The 2014 Iowa Black Business Summit will be Sunday, Sept. 21, through Monday, Sept. 22, at DoubleTree by Hilton, 350 First Ave. NE, Cedar Rapids. Activities begin at 5 p.m. Sunday and conclude 4:30 p.m. Monday. To register, go to http://smgs.us/3jox.

WORKSHOPS

Learn Six Sigma Green Belt Training, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Kirkwood Training & Outreach Services building, 3375 Armar Dr., Marion. To register, go to https://www.iowaqc.org/index.php. For more information, contact Iowa Quality Center at (319) 398-7101 or go to www.iowaqc.org.

ISO Internal Auditor Training will be offered from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday, Sept. 15, through Wednesday, Sept. 17, at the Kirkwood Training & Outreach Services building, 3375 Armar Dr., Marion. To register, go to https://www.iowaqc.org/index.php. For more information, contact Iowa Quality Center at (319) 398-7101 or go to www.iowaqc.org.

NETWORKING

Iowa City Learning Network: Discussion of an excerpt from Ken Miller's book, 'Extreme Government Makeover: Increasing our Capacity to do More Good,” from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Tuesday at the State Hygienic Lab, 2490 Cross Park Rd., Coralville. For more information, contact Iowa Quality Center at (319) 398-7101 or go to www.iowaqc.org.

Systems Thinking Network: 'Change Management 101” with Carol Doser of Rockwell Collins, from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Wednesday at Grant Wood Area Education Agency, 4401 Sixth St. SW, Cedar Rapids. For more information, contact Iowa Quality Center at (319) 398-7101 or go to www.iowaqc.org.

The Small Business Breakfast Roundtable will be from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Thursday at Scott's Family Restaurant, 1906 Blairs Ferry Rd. NE, Cedar Rapids. For more information or to register, contact Dianne Martin, SCORE of East Central Iowa, at (319) 431-4574 or crworkshops@scorevolunteer.org.

Mark Hennessey of ACT in Iowa City will speak at the 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, meeting of the Eastern Iowa Chapter of The Society for Technical Communication. Topic is 'Networking, Job Seeking and Social Media.” The meeting will be at the Longbranch, 90 Twixt Town Rd. NE, Cedar Rapids. RSVP Ben Leu at (319) 321-8683 or via email at bleu2500@gmail.com by Sept. 5. For more information: http://www.stc-easterniowa.org/.

Lean Six Sigma Learning Network: ”The Whats, Whys and Hows of Employee Engagement,” with Craig Althof, will be held from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, at Kirkwood Training & Outreach Services, 3375 Armar Dr., Marion. For more information, contact Iowa Quality Center at (319) 398-7101 or go to www.iowaqc.org.