Kim Wellman Kim Wellman has been promoted to assistant vice president of corporate marketing communications and public relations for Blue- Cross BlueShield of South Carolina.

Friends of the Richland County Public Library have announced the following officers and Board of Directors for 2008- 2009: John C. Bradley Jr., president; Patr ick Cobb, vice president; Stacey Haynes, secretary; and Christina Auman, treasurer.

Leadership South Carolina has announced Melissa Gentry of the City of Columbia Public Works Department as a member of its Class of 2009.

Dr. Patrick Scott has been awarded the Lucy Hampton Bostick Award by the Richland County Public Library.

Gill Weathers has joined Keenan & Suggs, Inc. as a personal and small business insurance broker.

Russell & Jeffcoat Broker, Margaret- Ann Ashburn, has been elected to the Harvest Hope Board of Directors for a three- year term.

Dr. Patrick Scott has been recognized by The Friends of the Richland County Public Library with the 2008 Lucy Hampton Bostick Award.

Grady L. Beard, Elizabeth Van Doren Gray, Rebecca Laffitte, Thornwell F. Sowell, Robert E. Stepp, Monteith P. Todd, and J. Calhoun Watson of Sowell Gray Step & Laffitte, LLC, have been selected as Best Lawyers in their fields for the 2009 edition

Gill Weathers of The Best Lawyers in

America.

Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte partner Daniel W. Hayes has been certified as a circuit court mediator by the SC Board of Arbitrator and Mediator Certification.

Michael Montgomery has joined Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC as an associate.

Margaret- Ann Ashburn Dr. Patrick Scott Grady L. Beard Elizabeth Van Doren Gray Rebecca Laffitte Thornwell F. Sowell Robert E. Stepp Monteith P. Todd J. Calhoun Watson Daniel W. Hayes Michael Montgomery Stacey Haynes, John C. Bradley Jr., Christina Auman, and Patrick Cobb