David Lopez was promoted to San Diego Division president by D.R. Horton, Western Pacific Series. He was v.p. of sales and marketing. He has been in the real estate business for more than 30 years.

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Tom Chubb was appointed manager of Capstone Advisors debt placement group, which arranges financing for builders and developers. Chubb was v.p. of project finance for the Corky McMillin Cos.

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Jefferson Hill Jr. joined Opus West Corp. as v.p. of real estate development. One of his first duties will be to establish a San Diego office for the company.

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Edward S. Netzhammer was named g.m. and Patsy Bock was named director of sales and marketing for the Omni San Diego Hotel, scheduled to open this month near Petco Park. Netzhammer has more than 20 years of hotel management experience. Bock formerly worked in property sales and marketing.

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The Pacific Life Holiday Bowl board elected Larry Blumberg president of the 2004 Holiday Bowl, replacing Pete Hedley. He is director of West Coast operations for DRS Technical Services Inc. Other Holiday Bowl officers are Steve Cushman, president-elect; Rudy Castruita, secretary; and Doug Sawyer, treasurer.

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Equus Realty Advisors named Roger C. Simsiman as COO working out of its La Jolla corporate office. He has 11 years of experience in commercial real estate.

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Barona Valley Ranch Resort & Casino added William T. Dunn as director of planning and analysis for all resort operations. Most recently, he was director of analysis for the Aladin Resort Casino in Las Vegas.

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Tiffany & Co. announced the promotion of Cathryn Ramirez to v.p., Southwest region. Based in San Diego, Ramirez, a 16-year Tiffany veteran, will manage the sales and operations for Tiffany and Co. in seven stores within San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange County, Palm Desert, Scottsdale and Las Vegas.

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Lauri Keller was named director of membership development by the San Diego chapter of AeA. She has 15 years of marketing and public affairs experience.

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Security Business Bank promoted Chris Burr to senior v.p. and Gail Jensen-Bigknife to chief credit officer. Burr is v.p. of commercial lending, Bigknife is senior v.p. of credit administration.

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Eleanor Musick joined Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch as of counsel for the intellectual property team, and Roger Rappoport is new on the firm’s business and technology team. Musick formerly was co-managing partner at Brown, Martin, Haller and McClain for five years and of counsel with Kilpatrick Stockton. Rappoport was formerly an associate with Heller Ehrman.

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Stan Cruse was named executive v.p./chief credit officer for San Marcos-based Discovery Bank. His 32 years of banking experience include most recently serving for five years as senior v.p. and manager of the Ontario office of Business Bank of California.

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Christine Bryant was appointed v.p., sales manager for North Island Credit Union’s branch administration division. Formerly she was consumer bank recognition and reward manager for Bank of America.

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Gina Clark-Bellak joined the law firm of Sullivan Wertz McDade & Wallace as an associate. Previously she worked for the city of San Diego as a consultant to the land use and housing committee.

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Clark Guy is heading a San Diego office of LaSalle Bank’s Wealth Management Group. He has been with La Salle for five years and was with Chicago Trust before that.

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Foley & Lardner promoted three attorneys to senior counsel. They are Rebecca Pérez-Serrano, Susanne Washington and Barry Wilson.

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Elizabeth Maruca joined the San Diego-based CPA firm of Lavine, Lofgren, Morris & Engelberg as a tax manager; Larry Campbell was promoted to tax manager; and Sherif M. Dessouky, head of the auditing department, was named partner. Formerly Maruca worked for Deloitte & Touche and KPMG Peat Marwick. Dessouky has 15 years of experience.

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Two new associates in the office of Littler Mendelson, an employment and labor law firm, are Tina M. Fryar and Denise M. Visconti. Fryar was with Higgs, Fletcher & Mack, and Visconti was a judicial clerk.

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Brett S. Burnett joined The Accounting Group as a controller. Formerly he was interim administrator for Oregon Health & Science University’s Physiology and Pharmacology Department.

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Castle Advertising promoted Karissa Armstrong to media buyer. In addition to her new position, Armstrong is West Coast membership chair for the national Ad2 board. She is president of the San Diego Ad2 Club and on the board of the San Diego Ad Club. The agency also named Kirsten Winter as account coordinator. Before joining Castle, Winter was a research analyst for the CoStar Group.

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McGraw/Baldwin Architects promoted Bill Pridgen to project architect. Since joining the firm in 1985, he has been senior job captain for biomedical, advanced technology and municipal projects.

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Di Zinno Thompson hired Rebecca MacQuarrie as a senior account manager. Previously she was with Arnold Worldwide in Boston.

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Courtney Ann Coyle of La Jolla was named California Lawyer Attorney of the Year for 2003 for Environmental Law. Representing the Quechuan Indians of Imperial County, she introduced state legislation that amends earlier legislation regulating mining in protected or sacred areas.

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HDR, an architecture engineering consulting firm, named David T. Williams its national director of hydraulics and hydrology to be based in San Diego. Previously he was president of WEST Consultants Inc. and a hydraulic engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers.

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Dorothy Bolettiere joined Episcopal Community Services as executive director of the ECS Foundation. She has worked with nonprofit organizations for 20 years, most recently as president and CEO of the Arthritis Foundation, San Diego chapter.

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Karen Black and Stacy Edwards, Escondido probate, estate planning and elder law attorneys, have formed a mother-daughter firm, Black & Edwards. Black has been practicing in Escondido since 1986. Edwards, an attorney since 1995, has been an associate with Black since 1997.

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Don Taylor was named v.p./branch manager of the Encinitas office of California Bank & Trust. He will continue to run commercial lending at the Carlsbad Village office. His 30 years of experience include work with Capital Bank of North County, San Dieguito National Bank and Bank of America.

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Dylan Wright joined GVA IPC as an associate of the commercial real estate brokerage firm. Previously he was an account manager with Sunset Parking.

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La Jolla Pharmaceutical Co. promoted Gail Sloan to v.p. of finance, controller and secretary. She joined the firm in 1996 as assistant controller. Formerly, she was with Affymax Research Institute.

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Ken Gladney was hired as a senior project manager for the automotive group at Roel Construction. He has more than 28 years of experience in the industry.

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Digitaria hired Summer Sinclair as an online marketing manager. She has more than three years of online marketing experience with Internet companies.

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Connie S. Hawley was appointed health care administrator for GlenView Assisted Living and GlenBrook Skilled Nursing in Carlsbad. Hawley has more than 20 years of experience in health care administration.

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Shirley R. Edwards, a former environmental prosecutor, joined the San Diego office of Gordon and Rees as senior counsel. She is a member of the firm’s Environmental and Toxic Tort Group. Formerly she was with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.

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Kent Dougherty was promoted by World Financial Group Inc. to executive marketing director, the company’s fourth highest field promotion level.

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Kellie James and Denise Price joined Woodenship Advertising & Public Affairs as account executives in the company’s newly opened office in San Diego. James formerly worked at a recruitment advertising agency in Los Angeles. Price, with 14 years of experience in the field, has most recently handled media for elected officials.

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Alexis Gutierrez was named partner at the law firm of Higgs, Fletcher & Mack. His focus is business litigation. Joining the firm and also in business litigation was Robert E. Gallagher Jr. He was a founding member of Stutz, Gallagher, Artiano, Shinoff & Holz.

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James Peterson, an attorney with Higgs. Fletcher & Mack, was named chair of the American Law Firm Association’s Labor & Employment Committee. He will serve a two-year term.

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Michael S. Kalt became a partner in the Wilson Petty Kosmo & Turner law firm. Others in the firm recognized were Frederick W. Kosmo Jr., elected 2004 president of the San Diego chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, and Meryl C. Maneker, elected president of the San Diego chapter of the Federal Bar Association. for 2004.

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John Howells, a financial professional with The MONY Group’s Life Insurance Co. and Securities Corp., achieved the certified financial planner certification. Howells, whose office is in Vista, has 24 years of insurance and financial planning experience.

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B. Moon Hajjar was hired as a graduate designer by KMA Architecture & Engineering. Most recently he managed projects for the Office of Mobile Design in Venice Beach.

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Alison M. Whitelaw of Platt/Whitelaw Architects and Randal L. Peterson of HMC Architects San Diego were elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. Whitelaw chaired the Legacy Project of the 2003 AIA national convention and expo in San Diego.

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Arthur L. Berg was promoted to v.p. of marketing for KSL Resorts in La Quinta, which operates the Hotel Del Coronado and La Costa Resort & Spa.

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Meryl C. Maneker was named president of the San Diego chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Maneker is a partner with the litigation firm of Wilson Petty Kosmo & Turner. Her practice focuses on general business and product liability.

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Dukor Spradling & Metzger named Jerry Cannon of counsel to the firm. He has practiced in business litigation and corporate bankruptcy in San Diego for 25 years.

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Timothy J. Pelura was appointed chief technology officer and Dennis P. Riley was named v.p. of development by Kereos, a San Diego County company developing targeted therapeutics and molecular imaging agents for detection and treatment of cancer and cardiovascular disease.

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Ron Ferrari, group director of sales for Household auto finance, a business unit of Household International, joined the board for Junior Achievement of San Diego and Imperial Counties Inc.

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Lori Hagen-Hulitt was appointed director of interior design for the San Diego firm of Architectural Concepts Inc. She has more than 13 years of experience.

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S. John Johnson of San Diego was named new practitioner of the year by the California Pharmacists Association. He is a clinical staff pharmacist, pharmacy information specialist at Sharp Healthcare in San Diego.

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Glenda Belcher was appointed director of corporate development for the Border/Sierra Region of the American Cancer Society.

Her 15 years of experience with nonprofit health organizations include management positions with the Muscular Dystrophy Association and Arthritis Foundation.