Nikole Setzler Mergo Nexsen Pruet announced that Melissa L. Azallion, Brian C. Bonner, Nikole Setzler Mergo, and Suzanne Guitar Odom have been elected Members of the firm.

Brandi Peele, member of a Carolina Millionaires Club, is the winner of one million dollars.

Gregg Morton has been appointed president of AT&T's South Carolina operations.

Jerry Fowler & the Results Team Realtors was recognized as the broker/agents of the month for the entire state of South Carolina.

BMW Manufacturing has been named a 2006 Top Plant by Plant Engineering magazine.

Joesph Hicks was recently honored by UPS for completing 20 years of service with the company.

The Epilepsy Foundation of South Carolina named Carole Moser, business manager for the YWCA of the Midlands, as the 2006 Volunteer of the Year. Linda Gilmore, systems administrator for the marketing and communications firm Chernoff Newman, was recognized for her work as chair of the Foundation's Mardi Gras Gala.

Brian C. Bonner

Trey Walker has been selected by U.S. Senator John McCain's exploratory committee to manage the Arizona Republican's potential presidential campaign in South Carolina.

Linda B. Salane, Ph.D., executive director of the Leadership Institute and special assistant to the president at Columbia College, received a James T. Rogers Meritorious Service Award from the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).

NAI Avant has named Bruce Harper, SIOR, vice president and partner of the Columbia based commercial real estate company. Harper will join the firm's existing executive management team.

Melissa L. Azallion Bruce Harper Linda B. Salane