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Banking & Finance

Southwest Bank hires vice

president of commercial lending

His new job: Carl Henderson joined Southwest Bank as vice president of commercial lending for the Mansfield banking center.

His background: Henderson brings 23 years of banking experience to the position.  Before joining Southwest Bank, Henderson worked as a business banker for both Wachovia Bank and Wells Fargo Bank.

Henderson has served on the board of the Southwest Fort Worth Alliance.  He received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Huston-Tillotson College in Austin.

– Staff reports

Arts & Culture

Aaron Carico, a doctoral candidate at Yale University, was named the 2009 Davidson Family Fellow and Michael Acuff, an eighth-grade American history teacher at Brewer Middle School in the White Settlement ISD, was named the 2009 Innovative Teaching Fellow by the Amon Carter Museum.

The Department of Art & Art History at Texas Christian University has appointed former Dallas gallery owner Christina Rees to serve as curator of The Art Galleries at TCU.

Banking & Finance

Taylor Townsend joined AuldridgeGriffin PC as the tax manager for the Fort Worth office.

Boards & Organizations

Nina B. Petty, managing director of strategic growth for Innovative Developers Inc., has been selected chairman of the Greater Fort Worth Real Estate Council.

Frank R. Lamas, vice president for student affairs at The University of Texas at Arlington, was elected chair-elect of the Council of Student Services Vice Presidents of Texas.

Health Care

Clayton H. Culp joined Huguley Medical Associates and will open a foot and ankle surgery practice in Burleson.

Christopher Chun  joined Huguley Medical Associates and will open an interventional pain management practice at Huguley Memorial Medical Center.

Honored

The National Association of Home Builders’ 50+ Housing Council named Isle at Watermere as the winner of the 2009 Best of 50+ Housing Award – Best Assisted Living Community.

Gayle Hall, Grapevine Convention and Visitors Bureau; Orlando Cisneros and Errol McKoy were inducted into the Texas Festival & Events Association Hall of Honor. Dennis Roberts was chosen as the TFEA Volunteer of the Year.

The Grapevine Convention & Visitors Bureau was awarded the Meetings & Conventions 2009 Gold Service Award by M&C’s subscribers.

The Little Gym has honored Brette Corder, owner of the Fort Worth SW location, with its “To the Top” President’s Circle award.

Fort Worth-based GCG Marketing has been chosen to feature two of its logos in the second edition of the LogoLounge Master Library series, Animals and Mythology. The two logos chosen were for Ugly Pug Black Lager beer and the Fort Worth Opera.

As part of the National Minority Enterprise Development Week, Tonya Veasey, president of Open Channels Group, was honored as the 2009 Exceptional and Successful Entrepreneur by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the FortWorth Metropolitan Black Chamber of Commerce.

Other

Jackson Walker attorney Joel Heydenburk has been accepted to participate in Leadership Fort Worth for the 2009-2010 class.

Mark Miller was appointed as executive vice president and CFO of Sabre Holdings.

Real Estate

Will Balthrope was named vice president investments at Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services.

Retail

Catherine David joined Pier 1 Imports as executive vice president - merchandising.

Chris Petrovic joined GameStop Corp. as general manager, digital media, a newly created position within the company.

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