Sheriff Leon Lott has been presented with the Army Partnership for Youth Success Program Award.

Army Commander Charlester White, the commanding officer of the Columbia Recruiting Battalion, presents Sheriff Leon Lott with the Army Partnership for Youth Success Program Award. John J. Singerling III, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Palmetto Health Richland, will serve as chair for the 2010 March for Babies for Columbia.

Michele Abraham has been named state director of the Frank L. Roddy South Carolina Small Business Development Center.

Benjamin Amberg, Megan Barrett, Danielle Bellamy, Renee Farmer, Thersa Gault, Atalaya Goodwin, Arden Hall, Michael Jones, Cierra Jones, Connie Joye, Robin Kolmansberger, Shauna Lever, Patti Leverenz, Aimee Lowery, Courtney Marcum, Lauren Monroe, Lilian Okoli, Samantha Radkikn, Misty Ross, Kelly Shaw, Teresa Shelley, and Steven Wickers have been awarded 2010 Spring Semester Nursing Scholarships through the Lexington Medical Center Foundation.

Lieutenant Derrick Mitchell Palmetto Health’s Board of Directors has announced the following officers and new members for 2010: Jerome ( Jerry) D. Odom, Ph.D., executive director of USC Foundations, chairman; Will iam (Bill ) L. Cogdill Jr., president and owner of Cogdill Carpets, vice chairman; Sara B. Fisher, senior executive vice president and COO at The National Bank of S.C., treasurer; and Traci Young Cooper, Ed.D., director of Extended Day Programs & Partnerships at Richland School District One, secretary. New members include Candy Waites, program director of Columbia College Leadership Institute and Rosalyn Frierson, Esq., director of S.C. Court Administration.

Lieutenant Derrick Mitchell has been awarded the Navy’s prestigious Officer Recruiter of the Year for Active Duty Recruiting in 2009.

Jack M. “Bo” Ellis III Thornton Kirby has been named chairman of the Board of Directors for Welvista. Kirby is the president and CEO of the South Carolina Hospital Association. Dr. Robert R. Weyeneth has been elected to lead the National Council on Public History.

Jack M. “Bo” Ellis III has recently been hired as a senior environmental engineer for TERRY Environmental Services.

David Sloan has joined the National Kidney Foundation Serving the Carolinas as the director of Development and Marketing.

University of South Carolina history professor Dr. Marjorie J. Spruill has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to complete

her book, Women’s

Rights, Family Values, and

John J. Singerling III the Polarization of American

Politics.

Lisa Kleinfelder and Tia Stewart have been chosen to be awarded Outstanding Volunteer Service awards by the National Multiple

Sclerosis Society at its Celebrate.

Inspire.Move event February 10.

Rogers Townsend & Thomas attorneys Cynthia Blair and Jennifer Rubin have been elected to The South Carolina Women Lawyers Association (SCWLA) Board.

Dr. Ginny Riga, Montessori coordinator in the South Carolina Department of Education’s Office of Public School Choice, has joined the board of directors for the American Montessori Society.
Dr. Jerome D. Odom
Dr. Marjorie J. Spruill