■ Jodi D. Hildebran has joined Allman Spry Leggett & Crumpler P.A., a law firm in Winston-Salem. Hildebran, a graduate of Wake Forest University School of Law, is an attorney in the firm's business and civil-litigation practice group.
■ Kilpatrick Stockton has seven new associates in its Winston-Salem office. Matt Chambers and Andrew Sachs have joined the firm's Corporate Department. Chambers has a law degree from the University of Georgia. Sachs earned a law degree from Wake Forest University. Kristin Garris, Jennifer Giordano-Coltart and Leslie Grab have joined the firm's Intellectual Property Department. Garris earned law degree from Wake Forest University. Giordano-Coltart received a law degree from Duke University. Grab earned a law degree from UNC Chapel Hill. Dustin Greene and Richard Sieg have joined the firm's Litigation Department. Greene received a law degree from Wake Forest University and Sieg earned a law degree from the University of Vermont.
■ Sheryl "Sheri" McAdams and Brin Perryman have joined Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. in High Point as leasing directors. McAdams has more than 20 years of retail and manufacturing experience in the home-furnishings industry. Most recently she was the Southeast sales manager for Gifts & Decorative Accessories Magazine. Perryman has returned to High Point where he began his career in the home-furnishings industry in the sales department at Furniture Today. In 2007, he left Furniture Today to become a sales manager at the World Market Center in Las Vegas.
■ Stanley Furniture Co. Inc. has appointed Kevin Walker to the position of vice president of product and sales management for Young America. With seven years of management experience in the industry, Walker formerly managed North American sales, marketing and product development for Pali, a juvenile-furniture company.
■ David F. Williams, a world-renowned expert in tissue engineering and medical devices, has joined the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine as a professor and the director of international affairs. He was trained as a materials scientist and has 40 years of experience in the fields of medical devices and tissue engineering at the University of Liverpool, England. He is editor-in-chief of Biomaterials and has published almost 400 scientific papers and written or edited 35 books.
■ BB&T Corp. in Winston-Salem has promoted John Nicholson to vice president. Nicholson is a risk manager and compliance officer based at 6010 Golding Center Drive in the bank's Sheffield Financial subsidiary. BB&T Wealth Management has promoted Robin Campbell Puckett to vice president. Puckett, a personal trust specialist, is based at 110 S. Stratford Road. Also, BB&T has promoted Holly Tutt to assistant vice president. Tutt, a native of Winston-Salem, is a financial-center leader in BB&T's 1782 Highway 160 West office in Fort Mill, S.C.
■ Senn Dunn, an independent insurance agency in Greensboro has hired Kelli H. Graves as a commercial account associate, Monica E. Pask as an accounting manager and Ashley Overbeck as an employee-benefits administrative associate.
■ Pike Electric Corp. in Mount Airy has made several management changes. Effective Jan. 1, the company's T&D Operations will be restructured into two regions -- East and West, with the Engineering/Substation/Renewable Operations remaining nationally focused. Pike Electric's T&D East Region will be led by Jim Benfield, a senior vice president. The T&D West Region will be led by Tim Harshbarger, a senior vice president. Jim Hicks will continue to serve as a senior vice president, engineering/substation/renewables. Benfield was a regional vice president. Harshbarger joined Pike Electric in August 2007, as a vice president, human resources. Hicks has served as Pike Electric's senior vice president, engineering substations, since the company's acquisition of EDS in September, where he was the president.
■ Letitia LeBeauf has joined Southern Community Bank and Trust in its Compliance Department as a BSA administrator. Also, Julie Whittington has joined Southern Community as a teller in the bank's Greensboro office.
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