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Business People

By Staff Reports
Published: 11/29/2009 2:21 AM
Last Modified: 11/29/2009 10:27 AM

Financial

Arvest Bank has promoted Jennifer Godwin as mortgage banker.

Godwin previously served as mortgage loan assistant. She has 14 years of experience in the mortgage industry and will work at Arvest's branch at 6560 E. 71st St.

Also, Ambra Rowan and Dana Brashear have been named mortgage bankers.

Rowan has worked in the banking and mortgage industries for the past 14 years. She also will work at 6560 E. 71st St.

Brashear has five years experience in the mortgage business. She will work in Arvest's Tahlequah branch.

Health care

Care ATC has announced that Dr. Lillian Jardine, M.D., has joined its team of physicians.

Jardine previously served for three years as the medical director at South Bend Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic in South Bend, Ind. She also served for 10 years as a family physician with Family Care of Niles in Niles, Mich., and Northwest Family Medicine in South Bend.

SouthCrest Medical Group has named Dr. James H. Beeson, M.D., as a maternal-fetal medicine physician with its new practice, SouthCrest Perinatal Specialists, which offers specialized screening and prenatal care services for women with high-risk pregnancies.

Beeson has actively practiced obstetrics and gynecology for more than 30 years. Most recently he served as professor for the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University Of Oklahoma College Of Medicine-Tulsa.

Cushing Regional Hospital has named Dr. Dennis S. Blackstad, D.O., as an emergency medicine physician.

Blackstad has practiced at Bristow Medical Center in Bristow since 1999, and has held titles including hospitalist, chief medical officer, chief of staff, emergency department physician and director.

Legal

McAfee & Taft has announced that Robert J. Joyce and Chris A. Paul, co-founders and principals of Tulsa-based Joyce & Paul PLLC, a law firm that specialized in the environmental and regulatory industry, have joined McAfee & Taft, the state's largest law firm.

Also joining the firm from Joyce & Paul are attorneys Leanne G. Barlow, David M. Winfrey and Chris K. Miller.

Joyce will focus his practice on regulatory, litigation and transactional matters, and he has an expertise in the pipeline, manufacturing, mining, aviation/aerospace and mid-stream and downstream petroleum industries. His litigation work primarily focuses on toxic tort, cost recovery and property damage matters, as well as related indemnity claims.

Joyce's career includes serving as an executive partner at Gardere & Wynne LLP; as a process/project engineer in the natural gas liquids division of OXY/Cities Service Co., and as senior attorney and manager of environmental compliance for Hilti Inc.

Paul will concentrate his practice on business issues and complex transactional and regulatory matters for businesses primarily engaged in highly regulated industries.

He previously was a partner with the law firm of Gardere & Wynne LLP, and served as in-house counsel for Sun Co. and Sun Pipe Line Co., and as environmental manager for Sun Co. Tulsa refinery.

Paul also served on active duty for four years as a U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps lawyer with the Seventh Infantry Division where he concentrated in criminal trial work and military operations law, and concurrently served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California.

Also, Barlow and Winfrey have been named of counsel with McAfee & Taft, while Miller has been named an associate with the firm.

Barlow focuses her practice on all aspects of estate and business continuation planning. She also devotes a significant portion of her practice to business succession planning. She previously has been a lawyer in both Oklahoma and Texas.

Winfrey practices primarily in the areas of environmental, occupational health and safety, and transportation safety law.

Over the course of his 17-year career, Winfrey has worked in private practice for both regional and national firms and served as counsel for the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., and a Fortune 200 waste services company.

Miller is a registered patent attorney whose practice encompasses all aspects of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, licensing, unfair competition, trade secrets, software and computer law, and litigation involving disputes over intellectual property assets. A portion of his practice is also devoted to environmental and transportation law and related litigation.

Retail

Tractor Supply Co. has named Ken Neckar as store manager of its new store in Glenpool, which opened earlier this month.

Neckar joined the company as a manager trainee in Pryor in 2008. He also has been a store manager at Atwoods for six years.

Scott Rice has named Jesse Diaz as workspace consultant-services.

Diaz most recently owned his own company, Business Installation Group, in Dallas for the past 15 years. Prior to that, he was a project installation manager at Business Interiors in Dallas for eight years.

Merritt's Bakery has appointed Jamie Calkins as director of marketing.

Calkins has experience in marketing and sales.

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