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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
John Knapp leaving Atlanta for Birmingham
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta native John Knapp, founder and director of the Southern Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility, is joining the faculty of Samford University in Birmingham starting July 1.
Knapp will become the Mann Family Professor of Ethics and Leadership and serve as director of the Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership. Marvin Mann, founder of the Lexmark Inc. and an alum of Samford, founded the center in honor of his late wife.
“I wasn’t looking, but this opportunity came up,” Knapp told me today. He added that the timing of this opportunity worked well. “My work here has reached a stage where I can step away and start something new.”
Knapp, who has five children with the oldest at Georgia State, said the move will be a big change. But, despite the views that most Atlantans have of the Alabama city, he said he’s been impressed with Birmingham. “They have remade that city,” he said.
Knapp has served as director of the center for more than 15 years, forging relationships with some of the top executives and companies in the state. The center recently merged with Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College College of Business.
Stepping into Knapp’s role will be Steve Olson, associate director of the center who was a fellow co-founder of the organization.
“For that reason I have never been more enthusiastic about the future of the center,” Knapp wrote friends in an email announcing his new contact information.
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Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce names new president and CEO
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tisha Tallman, who served as the Southeast regional counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, has been named to be the new president and CEO of the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Tallman, who will take on her new role on July 14, will fill the spot that has been vacant since January when Sara Gonzalez, the long time executive of the chamber, died unexpectedly.
Gabriel Vaca, the board chairman of the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, said in a statement, that Tallman’s background in the private, public and academic sectors would give her a strong foundation for leadership in the organization. Vaca added that Tallman will become a “strategic leader in Georgia’s economic development.”
Besides her role at the Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Tallman has practiced law for more than 15 years. She served in the St. Louis County Attorney’s Office and the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office. More recently, she served as a partner at Morgan & Morgan law firm.
She received her bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science as well as her law degree from the University of Iowa.
The search firm of Aldebaran Associates worked with the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to help identify Tallman for this position.
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