Jim Finn was appointed CAO at Palomar Pomerado Health, effective this month. Most recently he was COO of Antelope Valley Healthcare District in Lancaster.

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Bradley Little

Veteran technology executive recruiter Bradley J. Little joined the technology law firm practice of R.J. Watkins & Co. He was a managing director of international executive search firm Egon Zehnder International.

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Homebuilder Lennar Communities promoted Larry Clemens to president of its San Diego Division. He has been with the company for 10 years and active in the San Diego building industry for 30 years.

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Eric Oxford

Eric Oxford was promoted to director of central operations for Fieldstone Communities Inc. in both Orange and San Diego counties. He has been operations manager with Fieldstone since May 2002.

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Paul Lewis was elected president of the Otay Water District board. He has been treasurer of the board since 2002. Other officers are Gary Croucher, v.p.; and Jose Lopez, treasurer.

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The San Diego Venture Group named Rachel Barley executive director. She was with UCSD Connect where for three years she has been a program manager.

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John Hawkins, president of Cloud 9 Shuttle, is the 2004 chair of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. He has 20 years of experience in the travel and tourism industry. He was involved in turning around the financially troubled SuperShuttle franchise in 1993, which in 1994 led to the creation of Cloud 9 Shuttle.

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Howard-Sneed Architecture & Design promoted Donald Kachur to partner. He has been the firm’s production and technical director since 1999.

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Fish & Richardson elected 21 attorneys as new partners of the firm, five of them in San Diego. The San Diegans are James S. Cleary and Andrew Watson, patent group; and Roger A. Denning, John P. Schnurer and Andrew D. Skale, litigation group.

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Jan Sobel, who moved from Encino seven-plus years ago to become CEO/president of the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce, is leaving that position to return to the Los Angeles area. Her plans have not been announced, nor has her replacement been selected.

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Ronald Graham, UCSD computer theorist and mathematician, was elected to represent the university on the Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Graham holds the Irwin and Joan Jacobs endowed chair in computer and information science in UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering.

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Following a nationwide search, Chris Zapata was named city manager of National City. Most recently he was deputy city manager in Glendale, Ariz.

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Michael S. Kalt became a partner with the litigation law firm of Wilson Petty Komo & Turner. He has been an associate in the firm since 1996.

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Grant Puleo joined Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch as of counsel on the real estate and environmental team. Puleo’s experience includes all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, development, acquisitions, leasing and financing.

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David L. Morash was appointed COO of Axesstel Inc., developer of CDMA equipment. He formerly was executive v.p. and CFO at Remec Inc., and before that held the same position at Safeskin Corp. for six years.

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The law firm of Kring & Chung promoted Timothy J. Broussard to partner. He joined the firm in 1998. Kring & Chung also hired Frances A. Goldfarb as an associate in its San Diego office. Before attending law school, she was the senior legal assistant and manager for the office of the general counsel of the Open Society Institute.

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Laurel Pendle was appointed national sales manager for Paradise Point Resort & Spa. Before this position, she was director of tourism sales for the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau/Convention Center.

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Wilmer Yamada and Caughey, a landscape architecture firm, promoted Chris Langdon to associate. He has 10 years of experience in his field and is on the board of the San Diego County chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

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The San Diego County Apartment Association installed Ann Block as president for 2004, replacing Richard Snyder. Block has been an advocate for rental housing and real estate for 20 years. New board members are Bob Krane, Richard Pinel and Gail Scott.

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John T. Blankinship Jr. was chosen to serve on the Financial Planning Association’s 2004 government relations committee. He has been in the business since 1969 and founded Blankinship & Associates in 1974 and Blankinship & Foster in 1989.

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Patty Webb joined Catalina Design Group as executive account manager. She has spent 17 years in the building industry in sales, creative design, marketing and real estate.

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CityMark Development has hired Melanie Hayman and Chad Cavanaugh as sales managers and Christina Perricone as an administrative assistant. Both Hayman and Cavanaugh have been with Reynolds Communities, RWR Communities and the Ryness Co. Perricone has more than seven years of experience as an office manager and administrative assistant.

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The American Institute of Architects selected Roberta Jorgensen as a juror for the institute’s national honor awards for outstanding architecture. The awards, from more than 400 entries, will be announced early this year. Jorgensen co-founded Robbins Jorgensen Christopher design firm, which has offices in San Diego.

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Andy Ceperly

Andy Ceperly was named director of the Career Services Center at UCSD. For the past four years, he was the associate dean of academic support and director of the career center at Santa Clara University. Martin Wollesen was appointed director of the UCSD events office, a unit of student affairs. He was director of education and associate director of programming with Stanford University’s Stanford Lively Arts.

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Johnie Noyas

Roel Construction hired Johnie Noyas as project coordinator. She has five years of experience in construction, which includes a job formerly with T.B. Penick & Sons Inc. The company also hired Marlene Hickle as project manager. She has 19 years of construction industry experience and previously worked in Florida. She holds contractor’s licenses in both Florida and California.

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Dawn Wagner joined the BRE Commercial/NAI office in UTC as project manager and marketing assistant. She formerly was with Merrill Lynch and then PRA.

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Stephen M. Cusato joined City National Bank as senior v.p. and manager of San Diego commercial banking services based in La Jolla. Michael Ray is the new v.p. and construction loan manager at San Diego National Bank, not at City National Bank as reported in last month’s Metropolitan Movers.

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Maria Balasubramanian was named corporate counsel of Dimension One Spas in Vista. She has been with the company since 2002.

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The San Diego Regional Energy Office hired Susan Freedman to fill a newly created slot as senior policy analyst. Most recently, she spent six years in Washington, D.C., with the Alliance to Save Energy and then with Northeast-Midwest Institute. The energy office promoted Scott Anders to director of policy and planning. He joined the office in 1999.

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Troon Golf has named James Nicolaisen director of golf for The Crosby at Rancho Santa Fe, a gated membership club within the gated community of the same name. His 14 years of experience include seven years at the Olympic Club in San Francisco and the Auld Course in Chula Vista.

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Barona Valley Ranch Resort & Casino named Dane Tan as player development executive. He was executive director of international business development for the Hong Kong-based Goldland Group gaming firm.

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Superior Court Judge Wayne L. Peterson retires this month after 20 years in the Downtown courts. He is known for his innovative leadership in courtroom design and construction, as well as adaptation to technological advances.

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Pala Mesa Resort appointed Daniel Brown as director of sales and marketing. He has held similar positions at Wyndham Emerald Plaza Hotel in San Diego and Loews Coronado Bay Resort.

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Attorney J. Rod Betts joined Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton as a partner in the firm, which specializes in representing California employers. He was with Gray, Cary, Ware & Freidenrich for 22 years.

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Kevin Grant Gigler was named an account executive at Goreham-Moore & Associates insurance brokerage. He formerly worked for six years in sales and marketing in the industrial motor controls industry, and for two years worked for the San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau and the San Diego Convention Center Corp.

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Charlotte Buse was named v.p./branch manager of the Alpine office of California Bank & Trust, and Neil J. Fritts was named to the same position in the Rancho Bernardo office of the bank. Buse was v.p./commercial loan officer in the bank’s El Cajon office for more than six years. Previously, Fritts was with U.S. Bank where he was v.p./relationship manager.

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Bank of America appointed Angela (Angie) Lucero to v.p. and community development market manager for the San Diego region. For the past 27 years, Lucero has held a variety of positions with Bank of America in the San Diego region.

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The Prescott Cos., a property management consultant firm, named Mike Packard as president. He is a former association/CID business owner with a history of working with management companies.

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Brad Galles was hired as art director by Castle Advertising. He was with GroupBaronet, an advertising and design firm in Dallas.

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Evelyn Cherow was named executive director of the National University Center for Human Advancement, a new affiliate of the National University System that houses the Institute for Persons with Hearing Loss and Deafness. She was director of the American Speech-Speech-Language Association’s audiology practice and consultation division.

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Lynn Ann Underwood, a native San Diegan who worked for the Guggenheim Museum in New York City for the past seven years, was named executive director of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, San Diego chapter.

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The David Green Organization in Santee hired Judith Wheatbread as national sales manager. She has more than 25 years of experience in the hospitality industry, most recently with Wyndham Hotels Emerald Plaza and the U.S. Grant Hotel.

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Masson & Associates Inc. hired Edilberto “Bo” Sousa as senior project manager. His two decades of experience include most recently a position as regional engineering manager of an Alcoa subsidiary. Steven P. Lane joined the firm as a senior project designer and special projects manager. He was with Pacific 17 — AFL Telecommunications.

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Derek Dalton was appointed v.p. and g.m. of KGTV 10 News. Before joining McGraw-Hill Broadcasting, he held the same position with KWGN in Denver.

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Steven Bollert

Steven Bollert joined Veralliance Properties as principal. For the past 16 years, he has been with Burnham Real Estate Services, specializing in sale and lease of Southern California laboratories.

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Legacy Bank in La Jolla hired 20-year banking veteran Jennifer Laurie as a real estate lending officer. Most recently, Laurie was v.p. of the commercial real estate group of Silvergate Bank in La Jolla.

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John Lipham Jr., in sales management since 1975, was named general sales manager of RE/MAX Associates. During that time, he has owned eight real estate offices and managed three large offices. RE/MAX has nearly 400 agents affiliated with 12 offices in the county.

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Stanley Maloy, director of SDSU’s Center for Microbial Sciences and director of the university’s Center for Applied and Experimental Genomics, was elected president of the American Society for Microbiology for the 2005-06 term.

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The Alliance Healthcare Foundation’s board appointed Robert B. McCray as a member. McCray has more than 20 years of health service experience and success in startup business ventures.

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La Costa Glen Carlsbad, a continuing care retirement community, named Angela Altfillisch director of activities. Altfillisch was previously marketing director at ScreenTime Media.

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Ruth Patterson

Ruth Patterson joined The San Diego Foundation in a dual capacity as director for the Analysis & Strategy for the Science & Technology and Health & Human Services teams. Patterson was with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

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Karen F. Tom joined Smith Consulting Architects as interior design project manager. Her 25 years of experience includes Dimension 6 and Rague & Associates, both in San Diego. Derek Veit joined the firm as a project architect. He has seven years of experience and previously worked for McGraw/Baldwin Architects in San Diego.

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Superior Court judges selected Pennie McLaughlin Carlos as a commissioner in the Central Division. Carlos began her career in 1987 as a trial attorney for the Los Angeles County public defender. She moved to San Diego County in 1990, became a supervising attorney, then a senior trial attorney for the public defender. She became an assistant U.S. attorney in 2000.

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Roseanne Ramos, a senior at UCSD, and Katie Mulvany, at University of San Diego, joined Heying & Associates public relations firm as a part of the company’s internship program.

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Vicky Joseph and Deborah London are co-directors of training for Re/Max Associates real estate sales operation’s companywide training and mentoring program for newly licensed real estate agents. Joseph began selling real estate in 1989 and began training others in 1998. London, selling since 1993, began training in 2000.

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Coldwell Banker Commercial-Almar Real Estate Group promoted Jon Walters, a four-year employee and office specialist, to senior v.p.; Adam Molnar and Jim Benson, both in the North County office, to v.p.s; and Justin Harvey to senior sales associate in the Towne Centre office in La Jolla.

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The California Center for the Arts in Escondido hired Scott Southward as public relations manager. He replaces Carah Ong, now director of communications and development at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara. Southward’s 19 years of experience includes most recently serving as senior communications specialist for the Institute of Public Strategies in San Diego.

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New to the Nonprofit Management Solutions board are Joseph Charest of MarCom Alliance; Mary Colacicco of Bente Hansen & Associates; Raymond Uzeta of Chicano Federation of San Diego County Inc.; and Julie West-Harrison of San Diego Workforce Partnership.