Central Maine business briefs: United Way of Kennebec Valley welcomes newcomer
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AUGUSTA After four decades of service to United Way of Kennebec Valley, Director of Finance Wendy Beaudoin has announced her plans to retire from the organization in March. UWKV has hired Kelly Wasson as the organization’s incoming director of finance, effective Feb. 1.
Wendy Beaudoin
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Beaudoin joined United Way in 1981 as a administrative assistant, and her position has evolved with the nonprofit’s needs. Over the course of her career, she helped United Way grow from a two-person operation raising $298,000 to four-person staff raising $1.66 million and serving 57,534 people in 2020, the highest amount in the organization’s 65-year history.
Several Jacksonville law firms are beginning 2021 with new attorneys on their staffs.
Jimerson Birr
Hunter Faulkner joined the Jimerson Birr law firm as partner.
Faulkner represents buyers and sellers in contract negotiations for the acquisition, sale and finance of residential and commercial real estate in Northeast Florida. His practice includes land use law, estate planning and corporate law.
A Navy veteran, Faulkner received his law degree from the University of Miami after graduating from the University of North Florida in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in political science.
He’s a member of the NAIOP Commercial Real Estate Development Association and the Jacksonville Bar Association.
By LaTonya Smith & Gregory Redmon
What do attorneys Obinna Anum, Iana Benjamin, Amber Donley, Katrina Hamilton, Destartes Moore, Gregory Redmon, Jakela Rivers and LaTonya Smith have in common?
They are members of the D.W. Perkins Bar Association and they spent the morning together Oct. 31 participating in a virtual Ask-A-Lawyer event.
Gregory Redmon
It’s how lawyers volunteer their time to serve community members through an opportunity to “pick the brain” of an attorney and get guidance, and many times reassurance, concerning their legal matters.
The event was the first Ask-A-Lawyer event sponsored by a voluntary Bar association and we are thankful for the efforts of Gregory Redmon and LaTonya Smith in organizing the event.
Walsh picks defense attorney with ‘humble beginnings’ as Syracuse’s newest judge
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
Posted Dec 30, 2020
Erica Clarke will become a Syracuse City Court judge in January, following an appointment by Mayor Ben Walsh.
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Syracuse, N.Y. Mayor Ben Walsh will appoint Erica Clarke, a Syracuse defense attorney, to fill a vacant judge seat in the Syracuse City Court.
Clarke, 40, will replace Rory McMahon, who won a State Supreme Court seat in November’s election. She’ll start in the new position next month and will be one of nine judges in city court.
Walsh said Clarke brings a balance of work experience and life experience that both qualify her for the job and will make her a good judge.
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Jennifer Kifer is a new partner in Holland & Knight’s Jacksonville office and a member of the firm’s Private Wealth Services Group. Her practice is devoted to representation of charitable organizations in contested and uncontested trust and estate matters. Kifer assists them in accelerating and increasing bequest revenue from gifts left to them in wills and trusts.
Her legal background includes maritime and media law.
Kifer served as a judicial law clerk to U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan. While attending Florida Coastal School of Law, she was a legal intern to state Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente.