Neighborhood National Bank has added to its board Scott McMillin, vice chairman of the Corky McMillin Cos., and has named as an advisory director Robert McNeely, senior v.p. and manager of the corporate community development division of Union Bank of California.

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Mary Allis Curran

Mary Allis Curran was promoted to market president, overseeing commercial banking for Union Bank of California, N.A., in San Diego and Orange counties. She joined the bank’s San Diego office as v.p. and business banking team leader in 1989 and was promoted to senior v.p. in January 1996 and to market manager in October 1996. Debra A. Thomas was appointed v.p. and senior relationship manager in the Downtown branch of Union Bank.

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The League of Women Voters of San Diego elected Kay Ragan president for two years. She joined the organization almost 40 years ago in East San Gabriel Valley, where she also served as president.

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Wendy M. Godoy was named senior v.p./CFO for Crown Pacific Properties. Godoy will join John Ed Easley, president and CEO, and Greg Anderson, managing partner, as a principal in the company. Godoy was senior v.p. and CFO with Trizec R&E Inc., San Diego, a national developer and operator of entertainment and shopping centers.

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Edith Hughes has been promoted to CEO of the National City Chamber of Commerce. She started as a secretary in 1950. Her replacement will be announced in August.

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Attorney Wells B. Lyman, a sole practitioner in La Mesa, is president-elect of the San Diego County Bar Association. He has been a member since 1972 and has served on the board since 2001.

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Tammy Haughey, g.m. of the Di Zinno advertising agency, was promoted to president. Tom Di Zinno, will move from president to chairman. Haughey joined the company in 1991.

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Linda Katz, a community leader and volunteer, will coordinate the San Diego Foundation’s 30th anniversary observance in 2005. She co-chaired the 25th celebration of the foundation, which now manages more than $421 million in nearly 1,000 different funds, $221 million in permanent endowment funds.

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Cary Bickler of San Diego was named to the executive committee of the board of the American Society of Golf Course Architects.

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Coldwell Banker Commercial hired Michael McCulloch as retail land specialist in the company’s Towne Centre location. He has more than 20 years of experience in sales and management in the San Diego retail market.

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Sandy Laun was named director of regional sales for Summit Performance Group in San Diego and Orange counties. Laun’s nine years in the hospitality industry include being sales director of Conference Locators.

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Steve Cologne, equity partner at Higgs, Fletcher & Mack, was named the Old Globe’s 2004 STAR Awards honoree for his pro-bono counsel to the Old Globe since 2001 and his six years as a trustee.

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Rick Iwatsu, a senior estimator with Sundt Construction Inc., was elected v.p. of the Sundt Foundation board. The foundation provides funding to nonprofit organizations in cities where Sundt has established offices.

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Cyndy Day-Wilson joined the Best Best & Krieger law partnership as part of its environmental law and natural resources practice group in the San Diego office. She previously was at Higgs Fletcher & Mack where she chaired the environmental law practice group.

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Jerry Hansen joined Jimsair as chief pilot. The Lindbergh Field-based company also hired Kevin Harvey as director of maintenance for its expanded charter department.

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Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek has two new associates: Daniel W. Abbott and Allison B. Curlin. Abbott, formerly with a Sacramento firm, specializes in civil litigation. Curlin practices in civil litigation and family law.

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Leslie F. Keehn and Rebecca J. Gemmel joined the law firm of Sullivan Wertz McDade & Wallace as associates. Keehn specializes in business and real estate civil trials and appeals and was with Robbins & Keehn in San Diego. Gemmel specializes in residential and commercial real estate and was an associate with a Los Angeles firm.

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3E Co., a business process outsourcing company, appointed Robert S. Christie as CEO. He has more than 25 years of executive management experience with Thomson Learning, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Standard & Poor’s Information and Publex Publishing. Company founder and former CEO Jess Kraus becomes president.

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David B. Wescoe joined Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, San Diego group, as an investment specialist. He was president and CEO of Northwestern Mutual Investment Services in Milwaukee.

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Nick Abdelnour

Nick Abdelnour, who joined Ryland Homes-San Diego in 2001 as an assistant forward planner, was promoted to director of forward planning.

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Legacy Bank in La Jolla appointed Scott Faber as client services manager. He was with City National Bank, and in the past worked for California Bank & Trust and San Diego National Bank.

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The Metropolitan Transit System named Jeffrey Stumbo to head a new MTS Human Resources Department that handles issues for San Diego Transit, San Diego Trolley, MTS and its contract services and taxi administration. He was v.p. of human resources and labor relations for the transit corporation.

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Laurie C. Fisher

The Burnham Institute organization for biomedical research, formerly known as the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, named Karin Eastham executive v.p. and COO. She joined the firm from Diversa Corp., where she was an executive since 1999.

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Laurie C. Fisher, director of sustainable design at Tucker Sadler Noble Castro Architects, is chair of San Diego Green 2004, a day-long conference on sustainable design in the San Diego region, in September.

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Invitrogen Corp. named Craig Mello, co-inventor of RNA interference (RNAi), scientific advisor in the area of RNAi research. Elected to Invitrogen’s board was David U’Prichard, a venture partner with Apax Partners Inc. and president of Druid Consulting.

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David Roach

Barnhart Inc. named Dave Roach, who joined the firm last year, as v. p. and principal for the La Mesa Spring Valley Unified School District and Fallbrook Elementary School District modernization programs.

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Tom Keenan, in the real estate industry since 1979, was named office manager of Re/Max Associates’ Oceanside office. He succeeds Peter Freundlich, who has 41 years of experience in the real estate industry. Freundlich will focus on sales instead of management.

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Interior design firm Parisi Portfolio in Del Mar promoted Kelley Deblois to senior designer. She has been a project manager with the firm for eight years.

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Adam Lenain joined the Foley & Lardner law firm as senior counsel in the business law department working out of the Downtown office. Lenain spent six years in the business department at Cooley Godward.

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Tony York is newly appointed director of ground operations for Shed-it San Diego, a confidential mobile document destruction firm. Marcia Shenk was named director of sales and operations.

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Patti Shelton Keyes is new marketing director and Cynthia Stumbo is communications specialist for Electronic Theater, a San Diego multimedia production company specializing in CD-ROMs.

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The Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate initiated Keith A. Johnson, vice chairman of Fieldstone, and Barbara R. Cambon Communities Inc., as honorary members of the USD’s chapter of Alpha Sigma Gamma International Real Estate Society.

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Leap Wireless International appointed William Freeman as CEO of Leap’s operating subsidiary, Cricket Communications Inc. Additionally, Freeman will assume a seat on Leap’s board when it emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. He will succeed Harvey P. White as CEO of Leap. Freeman has nearly 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, including his most recent position as president of Verizon Public Communications Group.

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The Duckor Spradling & Metzger law firm added to its staff Nandita Murthy as an associate who specializes in employment and business litigation, and Anna F. Roppo, whose emphasis is in real estate law.

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Matthew Bateman was named associate acquisitions manager by Westcore Properties, a real estate investment firm. He formerly worked at Grubb & Ellis Co.

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Digital Orchid hired Christopher Duggan as CEO. Duggan was West region v.p. of vertical markets for Nextel Communications. Previously, he founded Aircomm, a wireless cellular company.

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Cindy Terwilliger was chosen as principal of San Diego-based Southern California Connections Academy, a K-8 virtual public school that operates in partnership with charter schools. She was on the academy’s founding board and has 25 years of education experience.

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McGraw/Baldwin Architects designated Gary Leivers as an associate in the San Diego-based firm. He joined the staff in 2000.

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Alan J. Lane joined Financial Data Solutions Inc., a subsidiary of Southwest Community Bancorp, as vice chairman and CEO. Most recently, Lane was president and CEO of Business Bank of California. He has 24 years of corporate banking experience.

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Debbie McGhee and Ron Papai joined the sales team for Gaslamp CitySquare, Champion Development Group’s $150 million residential and mixed use project under way. McGhee has 17 years of residential real estate experience, and Papai was with McMillin Realty.

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Dominic (Dino) Longi was named president of Pulte Homes’ San Diego division. He was v.p. of operations for the company’s Orange and South Riverside counties division.

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Amar Thakur joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as special counsel in its intellectual property practice group in Del Mar Heights. Thakur, most recently with Latham & Watkins in San Diego, is a registered patent attorney.

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Innovative Employee Solutions, a nationwide provider of outsourced payroll and human resources administration services, promoted Elizabeth Rice to president. Formerly executive v.p., she has been with the firm for 22 years.

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Tessa McRae, a v.p. at SCS Engineers, was appointed operations director of the firm’s San Diego office, which operates as Environmental Business Solutions. The environmental consulting, engineering, and construction firm maintains offices across California and the U.S. McRae will continue as a leader of the firm’s environmental site assessment practice. Daniel Johnson, co-founder and former managing principal of Environmental Business Solutions, continues to work from the San Diego office as a v.p. with SCS Engineers.

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John Batis joined Johnson and Jennings General Contracting as a superintendent. He has 20 years of experience in the construction business including 14 years as a senior superintendent for FCC/Bilbro in San Diego.

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Abbey Brown joined the tax department of San Diego-based Lavine, Lofgren, Morris & Engelberg CPA firm. She formerly worked for Hammel & Co. in Tucson.

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NEXT Proteins, manufacturer of whey protein powder and nutritional products, appointed Edward Hughes as COO/GM. Hughes formerly worked for TaylorMade-adidas Golf and Maxfli Golf.

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Senior Project Manager Dale Royal at Centre City Development Corp., received the John Craven Memorial Award. The prestigious honor goes to a public employee who has taken risks above duty to help developers. Royal was recognized for his efforts to find solutions to provide affordable housing. He received a $1,000 donation to the nonprofit agency of his choice from the Craven family.

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Communications agency ParkerWhite promoted Yvonne Wong to senior account executive. She has been with the firm since 2001, and has been in public relations for more than six years.

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Richard Valdez is the first Hispanic to be elected chair of the San Diego LGBT board. Other new officers are Lennie Alickman and Peter Spencer, vice chairs; Dale Kelly Bankhead, secretary; Jennie Flynn, treasurer; and John Laird, member at large.

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Sammy Pham joined civil engineering firm of Masson & Associates as a project engineer. Before that, Pham was a project engineer with P&D Consultants.

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Former executive v.p. of Multi Image Productions Inc., Leonard C “Bud” Gminski, was named president. Fred Ashman, former president, will retain his CEO position. Multi Image was founded by Ashman in 1971.

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Halozyme Therapeutics Inc., a research biopharmaceutical company, named Kenneth Kelley to its board. He has 20 years of experience in the field, formerly as a scientist at Integrated Genetics. Edward Mercaldo is leaving the board.