Allstate Insurance Company has recognized Allstate exclusive agency owners C-Anne Able (both of her West Columbia agencies), Kellie Ballentine (Blythewood), Laurie Griner (West Columbia), Scott Johnson (Columbia), and Jim Macfie (West Columbia) with the Regional Champions award for high standards in customer satisfaction, customer retention, and profitable business growth.

C- Anne Able Columbia police officer Walter P. Parker has been presented the J.P. Strom Award.

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina has designated Providence Hospitals as a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care.

Lee King has joined First Citizens Bank as senior appraisal specialist in Columbia.

L. Todd Sease has been appointed to serve on the Midlands Technical College Commission.

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough senior paralegal Meredith Keane has received the 2009 Jean D. Nunn Excellence in Leadership Award established in 2005 in honor of the firm's first paralegal manager, Jeanie Nunn.

Board Chairman Leighton Lord of Nexsen Pruet has graduated from the Midlands Diversity Leaders Initiative.

Walter P. Parker Ted Speth, managing shareholder in Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.'s Columbia office, has graduated from The Riley Institute's Midlands Diversity Leaders Initiative Class II at Furman University.

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