Folks about town

2008-10-10 / Business

Dr. W. Bret Smith has joined the physician team at Moore Orthopedic Clinic.

H. Lee Mashburn H. Lee Mashburn, a vice president at Mashburn Construction, has been appointed chair of the Midlands Region of the South Carolina District Council of the Urban Land Institute.

Rita Bragg Cullum, F. Earl Ellis Jr., William R. Harbison, William O. Higgens, Ernest G. Lawhorne, John T. Lay Jr., Mary Sowell League, William P. McElveen, Lana H. Sims Jr., David C. Sojourner, and Karen Hudson Thomas of Ellis, Lawhorne & Sims shareholders have been selected to the 2009 edition of Best Lawyers in America.

Bess Satcher has joined NAI Avant's Columbia headquarters office as a commercial property manager.

James Lewis has been selected as one of the 2008 UCB Crohn's Scholarship Program winners.

Thom Chumney has earned the master builder designation by the Home Builders Association of South Carolina, and the certified green professional designation by the National Association of Home Builders.

Kathy Wikle of Coldwell Banker United, REALTORS ® has been named a member of the Board for the Northeast Area Council of the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce. The Historic Columbia Foundation will award its Helen Kohn Hennig Award to the University of South Carolina's department of history and African American Studies Program.

Rita Bragg Cullum First Citizens has promoted Wanda LeBlanc to senior vice president.