Tampa Bay area personnel appointments, promotions and announcements

Legal

Fowler White Boggs, Tampa, announces the following attorneys have been named to Florida Trend magazine's Legal Elite: Ceci Culpepper Berman, E. Jackson Boggs, Amelia M. Campbell, Eric J. Holshouser, Richard Johnston Jr., Donald R. Kirk, Latour "LT" Lafferty, Robert Riegel Jr., John W. Robinson IV, and Julie S. Sneed. Attorneys Rhea F. Law and Linda Loomis Shelley were named to the Legal Elite Hall of Fame.

Holland & Knight, Tampa, announces the following attorneys have been named 2010 Super Lawyers by Super Lawyer magazine: Rodney Anderson, bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights; Chester Bacheller, securities and corporate finance; Bernard Barton Jr., tax; Stacy Blank, appellate; Michael Chapman, business litigation; William deMeza Jr., employment and labor; William Dufoe, business litigation; Richard Eckhard, real estate; W. Keith Fendrick, bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights; Leonard Gilbert, banking; Robert Grammig, securities and corporate finance; Richard Hadlow, business/corporate; John Arthur Jones, estate planning and probate; Bradford Kimbro, business litigation; Robert Kline, estate planning and probate; Edward Koren, estate planning and probate; William Lane Jr., estate planning and probate; Jack Levine, tax; James Shimberg Jr., land use/zoning; Joseph Varner III, business litigation; Charles Wachter, class action/mass torts; Robert Warram, real estate; and Douglas Wright, business/corporate. Also, Kimbro, Koren and Varner were named to the Super Lawyers Top 10.

Nonprofit

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) Suncoast Chapter, Tampa, announces new officers for 2011-2013: Kristen Keller, president; Kira Doyle, vice president; Regan Zayas, secretary; Jeff Chapman, treasurer; and Richard Spayde Jr., national board of representatives for LLS. Keller is Alcatel-Lucent program lead at Telmar Network Technology, Tampa; Doyle is an attorney in private practice in St. Petersburg; Zayas is manager of clinic systems and support, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa; Chapman is vice president of business development at United Services Group, Clearwater; and Spayde is vice president/investment officer/financial adviser at Wells Fargo Advisors, St. Petersburg.

Organizations

Daniel E. Buffington is the recipient of the American Pharmacists Association's Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management 2010 Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award. Buffington is a faculty member at the University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, and is the medical director of clinical pharmacology services.

Technology

Doug Pace has been included in the Gulf Coast Business Review's 2010 40 Under 40 issue. Pace is executive vice president and chief operating officer at Bayshore Solutions, Tampa.