G&A Appointments

Tampa Bay area personnel appointments, promotions and announcements
By Dolly Brosan, Times Staff Writer

Published Friday, November 13, 2009


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Accounting

Brian Giglia has been named an audit senior in the audit department at Lewis Birch & Ricardo LLC, Clearwater. Giglia was an audit supervisor at Horn LLP, Nashville.

Julie Trimpe-Steed has been named CAM division manager at Fredrick James Accounting, Tax and Consulting, Clearwater. Trimpe-Steed will oversee the firm's new homeowners and condo association management services division. Trimpe-Steed is founder and president of CAM (Condo Association Management) Academy & Consulting.

Funeral services

Marlene "Marley" Rusch has been named family services director at Anderson-McQueen Family Tribute Centers, St. Petersburg. Rusch was a mortgage adviser at Pinellas Mortgage Services, Dunedin.

Legal

Michele Leo Hintson has been named to the Stetson Lawyers Advisory Council. Hintson is an associate in the litigation practice group at Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick LLP, Tampa.

Eric D. Nowak has been named an associate at de la Parte & Gilbert PA, Tampa. Nowak is a recent graduate of the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

David R. Phillips has been named an associate at Macfarlane, Ferguson & McMullen, Tampa. Phillips, who recently earned his juris doctorate from Florida State University, will concentrate in the areas of medical malpractice defense and health care law.

Matthew J. Zipay has been named an associate in the wealth preservation, trusts and estates practice group at Fowler White Boggs, Tampa. Zipay was an associate at Quarles & Brady, Naples.

Gallagher & Associates Law Firm PA, St. Petersburg, announces that Alison A. Parker has joined the firm as an associate; and Jason A. Cox has been named paralegal/firm administrator. Parker was a law clerk with the Hillsborough County Environmental Protection Commission. Cox was paralegal and firm administrator at the law firm of B. Edwin Johnson PA.

Wilkes & McHugh PA, Tampa, announces that Lydia Wardell and Carl R. Wilander have been named associates. Wardell was a prosecutor in the Pinellas County State Attorney's Office for 15 years; and Wilander was an assistant state attorney at the State Attorney's Office in Tampa.

Nonprofit

Keral Kronseder has been named executive director of the Alpha House of Tamp Inc. Kronseder was executive director of the Lee County Coalition for Drug-Free Southwest Florida.