Grady Beard has been invited to join Larson's National Workers' Compensation Advisory Board as one of two representatives from South Carolina.

Grady Beard Wesley Whitener has joined First Citizens as senior vice president and appraisal manager.

The attorneys from McNair Law Firm, P.A. named 2009 South Carolina Super Lawyers are Michael M. Beal, John W. Currie, Robert W. Dibble Jr., Erik P. Doerring, M. Craig Garner Jr., Celeste T. Jones, and Richard J. Morgan.

The attorneys from Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough named 2009 South Carolina Super Lawyers are Stuart M. Andrews Jr., George S. Bailey, Linda K. Barr, C. Mitchell Brown, George B. Cauthen, Clarence Davis, David E. Dukes, Carl B. Epps III, Robert W. Foster Jr., James C. Gray Jr., Kevin A. Hall, Sue Erwin Harper, William C. Hubbard, S. Keith Hutto, John F. Kuppens, John T. Moore, Stephen G. Morrison, Edward W. Mullins Jr., R. Bruce Shaw, B. Rush Smith III, Joel H. Smith, and Daniel J. Westbrook. The attorneys from Ellis, Lawhorne and Sims, P.A., named 2009 South Carolina Super Lawyers are F. Earl Ellis Jr., John T. Lay Jr., John L. McCants, William P. McElveen Jr., and David C. Sojourner Jr.

The attorneys from Nexsen Pruett in Columbia named 2009 South Carolina Super Lawyers are Gene Allen, Mike Brittingham, Henry Brown, David Dubberly, Vickie Eslinger, Rick Mendoza, Val Stieglitz, Mike Pitts, Joel Stoudemire, William Floyd, Tommy Lavender, Angus Macaulay, Rose Manos, Susi McWilliams, Ed Menzie, Grant Burns, and Tom Stephenson.

Polly Howser, Katie Rama, and William F. "Billy" Cave have been elected to the board of directors of the South Carolina State Museum Foundation.

George Singleton, creative writing instructor at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, has been selected to receive a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York.

Melanie Huggins has been named executive director of the Richland County Public Library.

Stan Jones has been named the 2009 Lake Murray Man of the year.

Susan DuRant has joined Accelerations Educational Software (AES), a leading provider of software for individuals with autism and other related disorders, as the newly established position of Director of Education.

Coldwell Banker United, REALTORS® has been honored for its outstanding performance during the last year at the 2009 Cartus Broker Network International Conference held March 4- 6 in San Antonio, Texas.