Tampa Bay area personnel appointments, promotions and announcements

Engineering

Richard Tillery has been named senior transportation planner at RS&H, Tampa. Tillery was a project manager at Renaissance Planning Group, Tampa.

Legal

Rachel L. Drude has been named an associate at Battaglia, Ross, Dicus & Wein PA, St. Petersburg, and will lead the firm's estate planning and probate department. Drude previously practiced at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Adventura.

Theresa Gallion has been included in the Best Lawyers in America for 2011 in the field of labor and employment. Gallion is a partner at Fisher & Phillips, Tampa.

Gail Golman Holtzman has been named a Florida Super Lawyer. Holtzman heads the labor and employment practice group at Kass Shuler, Tampa.

Carter B. McCain has joined the law firm of de la Parte & Gilbert PA, as of counsel. McCain was a shareholder at Macfarlane Ferguson & McMullen P.A., Tampa.

Joseph H. Saunders has been appointed to the plaintiffs steering committee for the United States District Court Multidistrict Litigation 2096, In Re: Zicam Cold Remedy Product Liability Litigation in the U.S. District Court for Arizona. Saunders leads the science subcommittee for the PSC and is founder of Saunders & Walker PA, Pinellas Park.

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart PC, Tampa, announces that Tony B. Griffin, Edmund J. McKenna, Grant D. Petersen and Kevin D. Zwetsch have been included in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. All are shareholders and were recognized in the area of labor and employment law.

Marketing

Evan Brownstein has been named chief marketing officer at Fry Hammond Barr, Tampa. Brownstein was partner/ co-creative director at Bright Monkey Marketing Inc., which recently merged with Fry Hammond Barr.

Nonprofit

James "Jim" D. Williams has been named vice president of fund development at Goodwill Industries-Suncoast. Williams was director of development at HPC Healthcare Inc., the parent company of LifePath Hospice in Tampa.