People on the Move: April 12
This is a weekly roundup of promotions, appointments and employee accomplishments in the Birmingham metro area. For more People on the Move, check out the Birmingham Business Journal’s print edition each week. Send announcements to ccrawford@bizjournals.com.
FINANCIAL
J. Samuel Henderson III, president of Jefferson and Shelby counties for Southern States Bank, was named Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International. Henderson is active in the Shades Valley Rotary Club. He joined Southern States Bank in October 2008.
LEGAL
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC named Kevin R. Garrison its Birmingham Pro Bono Attorney of the Year. Garrison works with the Homeless Experience Legal Protection program and is part of a team of attorneys representing individuals wrongfully incarcerated by small towns in the metro Birmingham area because they could not afford to pay fines for minor infractions such as traffic violations and petty misdemeanors. He concentrates his practice in construction litigation.
MANUFACTURING
Bob Holt, vice president of sales and marketing for ThyssenKrupp Steel USA LLC, will deliver the keynote address at the 2010 University of Alabama Spring Sales Banquet April 23 at NorthRiver Yacht Club. The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Holt, a veteran of the steel industry, was appointed to his current position in October 2007. He is responsible for the commercial activities in the carbon steel segment of TK's new $4.2 billion carbon and stainless flats processing facilities, currently under construction in Calvert, 30 miles north of Mobile.
MEDIA
Thomas E. Jackson was honored for more than 22 years of service to the Alabama Educational Television Commission by Alabama Public Television at a dinner March 24. Jackson, who is leaving the commission, was appointed to the position in 1987. Jackson is the founder and president of Market Technologies, a Birmingham-based company that provides medical diagnostic equipment across the Southeast.
Niki Noto, a recent graduate of University of Alabama, won a challenge in Atlanta Falcons Reality Inside Reporter Competition, which could lead to a chance to be a personality on AtlantaFalcons.com through the 2010 football season, beginning with the NFL Draft.
NONPROFITS
Members of the Nature Conservancy of Alabama’s Board of Trustees recently met at the HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology in Huntsville. Members are Steve Graham and Rick Horsley of Birmingham; Dr. Ed Colvin of Birmingham, Jim Wadsworth of Clanton, Donald Sweeney of Birmingham; Steve Northcutt and David Donaldson of Birmingham and Elizabeth Downing of Mobile.
U.S. Marshal Marty Keeley is scheduled to be guest speaker for the Homewood Chamber of Commerce’s April 20 luncheon at the Homewood Public Library Auditorium. Keeley was appointed to the position in 2002. He began his career in law enforcement in 1969 at the Mountain Brook Police Department. In 1987, he was promoted to the rank of chief of police. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and has a law degree.
REAL ESTATE
Dennis Key of Jasper was recognized as the Appraisal Institute’s April Volunteer of Distinction for Region IX, which includes Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. Key has been a member of the Appraisal Institute for 20 years and involved in the real estate valuation profession for more than 30 years. He currently teaches appraisal courses at Auburn University of behalf of the Alabama State Revenue Department and serves as an appraiser mentor to new appraisers in the days before state licensing. He has been president of his own firm, Key Co. Inc., since 1979.
UNIVERSITIES
University of Alabama at Birmingham professor of history Colin J. Davis has been selected to receive the 2010 Caroline P. and Charles W. Ireland Prize for Scholarly Distinction. Davis, who works in the UAB Department of History and Anthropology, specializes in comparative labor history and U.S. labor history. He has been a member of the UAB faculty since 1991. He will present his lecture “Trans-Atlantic Maritime History: Food For Thought” during a reception April 19 at The Club.
Urban education expert Steve Perry, author of “Man Up! Nobody is Coming to Save Us” and “Raggedy Schools: The Untold Truth,” is scheduled to speak at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 7 to 9 p.m. April 27 at the Alys Stephens Center.