Newsmakers

Christa Delk has been named senior vice president of sales and marketing of firstPRO Staffing and Executive Search.

R. Randall Rollins, chairman of the board of Rollins Inc., says the company’s board of directors has been expanded to nine members with the election of Glen W. Rollins and Larry L. Prince.

Joe Colonna has been named vice president-supply chain at Piedmont Healthcare.

Lisa Robinson has been named vice president of advancement at Visiting Nurse-Hospice Atlanta, Georgia’s largest nonprofit home health and hospice care provider.

Michele Molden, president and CEO of the Piedmont Heart Institute, has been named to Modern Healthcare’s list of the Top 25 Women in Healthcare for 2009.

Gov. Sonny Perdue has appointed Resurgens Orthopaedics co-president, Dr. D. Kay Kirkpatrick, to the Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, the agency responsible for advising both the governor and the General Assembly on physician work force and medical education policy and issues.

Mike Rieman of Kennesaw has joined the staff of Flammer Relations as senior account manager.

Mark S. Lange, Emily C. Crosby and Larry A. Slovensky have joined the Atlanta office of McKenna Long & Aldridge.

Aaron Shepherd has been honored by State Farm with an Embrace Life award.

Simon Property Group has named Leslie Schick as the new assistant director of marketing and business development for Phipps Plaza.

Cary Coffey, of TermNet Merchant Services, has been named a director of the Vinings Historic Preservation Society.

Donald Kreft has joined the fleet transportation company, Transport Solutions of America, as principal and chief marketing officer.

Joe Walker has joined Atlanta-based independent brokerage and investment banking firm, J.P. Turner.

Local attorney Jeff Tompkins has joined the board of directors of The Study Hall, a non-profit after-school program serving the Peoplestown neighborhood of South Atlanta.

Gary W. Farris, partner in the Burr & Forman firm, has been named one of four recipients of the “Father of the Year” award.

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