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.
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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
Geoff Watson, former community office manager for the National Bank of Middlebury, has joined Bar Harbor Bank & Trust as branch relationship manager of the bank's Rutland office.
Nate Hibler, former assistant director of taxpayer services at the Vermont Department of Tax, has been named vice president of finance at Vermont Law and Graduate School.
Rebecca Bishop Ware has been named to succeed Betsy Rathbun-Gunn as director of early-childhood services for the Head Start/Early Head Start program at United Counseling Service, a private, nonprofit community mental health center in Bennington County. Bishop Ware has served the last seven years as assistant director of the program.
1% for the Planet, a global network with thousands of businesses and environmental organizations working together to support people and the planet, has appointed Annika Berman, Madelyn Postman and Marcius Extavour to its board of directors.
Attorney Heather Southwell, former senior counsel for the IRS Office of Chief Counsel at the U.S. Department of Treasury, has joined the labor and employment team at Downs Rachlin Martin in Burlington.
E4H (Environments for Health Architecture), a national health care architecture firm with offices in Williston, has appointed Jeremy Bartz as its next president. Bartz, who has over 22 years of experience in the health care and health science industry, previously served as regional lead for E4H’s mid-Atlantic region.
The Governor’s Institutes of Vermont recently welcomed new trustees Sue Bentlage, senior director at Marvell Technology in Burlington; Gary Marini, president of New England Woodcraft; and Dan Mullen, corporate counsel for the environmental and sustainability services firm SCS Global Services.
The Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, a Burlington-based nonprofit organization that offers programs and capital funds to select early-stage firms, has promoted Nicole Eaton to marketing and communications manager.
Bar Harbor Bank & Trust has promoted Cristy Harding to branch relationship manager for the bank's Brandon and Rochester offices.