Davis & Hodgdon CPAs, a division of the Davis & Hodgdon Advisory Group, announced the hiring of Eddy Blaise as senior accountant and Ashalin O’Connell as associate accountant.
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Kaelin “Liz” Mackey, former deputy state's attorney in Windsor County, and Jessica Bielonko, a recent graduate of Boston College Law School, have joined the law firm Langrock Sperry & Wool as associates. Mackey will work out of the Middlebury office, and Bielonko will be based in Burlington.
Sheri Baraw Smith, who previously spent 30 years as general manager of her family-owned establishment, the Stoweflake Resort and Spa, has been named general manager of the historic Green Mountain Inn in Stowe.
Sarah Lemnah, former executive director of the Cancer Patient Support Foundation in Williston, has been named executive director of the Vermont chapter of the American Red Cross of Northern New England.
Mia Montoya Hammersley, former of counsel attorney at a law firm in Las Cruces, New Mexico, has been named director of the Environmental Justice Clinic at Vermont Law and Graduate School.
Corinna Thurston, executive director of the Milton Artists' Guild, and Lisa Mitchell, executive director of the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, have joined the Vermont Creative Network as zone agents.
Business leaders Lucy Halvorson, Sirisha Hawley, Joshua Kurt and Addison Williams have been elected to the Hunger Free Vermont Board of Directors.
Wendy Audette, former director of Bayada Hospice in Colchester, has been named executive director of Living Well Group, a nonprofit operator of residential care homes in Burlington and Montpelier.
Christopher Gomez, former senior vice president and chief experience officer at Mid-Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union in upstate New York, has been named president and CEO of Heritage Family Credit Union, which serves members in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York and Massachusetts.
Mackinnley Wright, former store manager at NEK Vapor, has joined the Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging as case manager for the Western Caledonia County area.
Attorney Brian Sullivan, head of the immigration practice at MSK Attorneys in Burlington, has been appointed chair of the Vermont Bar Association Immigration Law Section. The substantive law sections of the VBA help educate its members and others about developments in the law covered by the sections, as well as about needed changes in the law.
