Erik Rutherford of Allstate insurance has earned the “Personal Financial Representative” title.

Providence Hospitals Employee of the Year Jeff Bopp, Information Systems, and his wife Staci celebrate at the Employee Recognition & Awards Banquet on Friday, June 25, at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. Jef f Bopp was named 2009–2010 Employee of the Year by Providence Hospitals.

Breon Walker of Ellis Lawhorne Attorneys at law, is the 2010 recipient of the Gary Walker Memorial Scholarship to attend the International Association of Defense Counsel’s (IADC) Trial Academy at Stanford University.

Tameika Hunter, a licensed practical nurse (LPN) in the Intermediate Care Unit (IMCU) on 4 Heart at Providence Hospitals, has been selected as a 2010 recipient of the Caritas Nursing Scholarship.

Rose Dugan Manos was announced by the South Carolina Supreme Court as a South Carolina attorney who has qualified as a specialist in the Bankruptcy & Debtor–Creditor law area.

Breon Walker Dr. Chris Toumey, a faculty associate in the USC NanoCenter and department of anthropology, has been awarded a Coolidge fellowship for the 2010 Research Colloquium of CrossCurrents, the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life.

Dr. Rober t McKeown, a researcher at the University of South Carolina, will receive the prestigious Abraham Lilienfeld Award from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA). He will also become president–elect of the American College of Epidemiology (ACE) in September.

Ronald B. Cox of Proffitt & Cox, LLP, has been appointed chair of the Practice and Procedure Committee of the South Carolina Bar by Bar President Carl Solomon. Cox began his term effective July 1, 2010.
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