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Banking
T. Corey Neil has been named director of personal financial services and senior vice president at the Bank of Tampa. Neil has 15 years of commercial banking experience and has been with the Bank of Tampa for the past eight years. He previously served as office executive and senior vice president/commercial banking at the Bank of Tampa's Westshore office.
Civil engineering
Lee H. Harwell has been named director of land development at Progressive Development Group Inc., Tampa. Harwell brings 30 years experience to Progressive Development Group and most recently was a senior project manage in the land development department at Wilson-Miller Inc., Tampa.
Finance
Nikki McKernan has been named recruiting director at MetLife Tampa Bay Financial, an office of MetLife. McKernan was a life marketing consultant at Ash Brokerage, Tampa.
Health care
St. Petersburg General Hospital announces its winners of the Hospital's 2010 Frist Humanitarian Award. The award recognizes one physician, one employee and one volunteer at each HCA-affiliated facility who demonstrate extraordinary concern for the welfare and happiness of patients and their community. Those recognized were Dr. Manu Nanda with the 2010 Physician Frist Humanitarian Award; Sheri Jenks with the 2010 Employee Frist Humanitarian Award; and Donna Mortensen with the 2010 Volunteer Frist Humanitarian Award. Nanda has been on the medical staff at St. Petersburg General more than 26 years. Jenks is residency coordinator and has been with the hospital since 2008; and Mortensen has been a volunteer since 2008 and has served as vice president of the Auxiliary for the past two years.
Legal
John S. Vento has been appointed to the Governing Committee of the American Bar Association's Forum on the Construction Industry. Vento is a shareholder and leads the construction law and government contracting practice group at Trenam Kemker, Tampa.
Kent Whittemore has been named a 2011 Florida Super Lawyer. Whittemore was recognized in the area of personal injury law. He is a founding member of Whittemore Law Group PA in St. Petersburg. The firm concentrates in the areas of personal injury, product liability and business litigation.
Michael R. Rocha has been appointed to the Florida Bar's Eminent Domain Committee for a one-year term. Rocha is an associate and concentrates in the areas of eminent domain and condemnation, real estate transactions and litigation and commercial litigation at Bricklemyer Smolker & Bolves PA, Tampa.
Erin Smith Aebel has been elected to the Executive Council of the Florida Bar Health Law Section. Aebel is a partner at Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick LLP, Tampa, and is certified as a health law specialist by the Florida Bar.
Roberta A. Colton has been named one of the "Top 10 Lawyers in the State of Florida" by Florida Super Lawyers. Colton is a shareholder and practices in the areas of federal bankruptcy, foreclosure/lender liability, creditor committees, bankruptcy trustee representation, commercial litigation and bankruptcy asset sales at Trenman Kemker, Tampa.
Nonprofit
The American Heart Association announces that Stephen Daugherty, Dr. Robert Sanchez and Gloria Watson have been named to its Tampa Bay board of directors. Daugherty is chief executive officer at Northside Hospital and Tampa Bay Heart Institute, St. Petersburg; Sanchez is a cardiologist at the Heart and Vascular Institutes of Florida, St. Petersburg; and Watson is a vice president at Chartis, Tampa.
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