Christine Beall (pictured), vice president and financial adviser at Morgan Stanley, has been elected board chair of Girls on the Run Vermont, a statewide nonprofit organization that helps girls in third through eighth grade develop physical, emotional and social well-being through a 10-week after-school program. The appointment is effective Jan. 1.

Attorney Emily Garrett has joined the complex development and land use team at the northern New England law firm Downs Rachlin Martin in Burlington. Garrett comes to DRM from Ropes & Gray in Boston, where she worked in the real estate investments and transactions group.

Jessica Barquist, former director of policy and organizing for the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, has been named vice president of Vermont public affairs at Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and the Planned Parenthood Vermont Action Fund.