THE LADDER

TWO months after it emerged from bankruptcy, Goodwill of Southern Nevada has hired a former top school district official and retired Air Force colonel as its CEO.

The nonprofit thrift store chain and career services organization announced that Rick Neal took charge Monday as its new chief executive.

“Rick is exactly the leader the organization needs to lead it into the next era,” Goodwill’s outgoing CEO John Helderman said in the news release, adding that Neal “brings many years of executive oversight directing major initiatives with complex priorities.”

Neal most recently worked for the Clark County School District, where he was chief operating officer and chief of staff and external relations. Before that, he spent 25 years in the U.S. Air Force, most recently as commander of the 799th Air Base Group at Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Goodwill said.

The Neon Museum hired Bruce Spotleson as vice president of fund and partner development. Spotleson will drive corporate and individual support for the organization.

Spotleson was most recently director of corporate partnerships for Vegas PBS. Before that role, he was group publisher for Greenspun Media Group. Before relocating to Las Vegas in 1996, he was publisher of the Tahoe Daily Tribune.

Spotleson sits on the executive committee of the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce, served as chairman of its Board of Trustees in 2014, is a past president of the Business Council and is a graduate of the Leadership Las Vegas class of 1999.

Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican health system named new top leadership at three Southern Nevada acute-care hospitals.

Lawrence Barnard, current president and CEO of the St. Rose San Martín campus, will assume the role of Nevada market leader and president and CEO of the Siena campus, effective July 1. Kimberly Shaw, Siena campus chief operating officer, has been appointed president and CEO of the San Martín Campus, effective July 1.

Tom Burns, chief nurse executive at the Rose de Lima campus, will take on additional executive duties at the hospital, becoming chief operating officer and CNE at the Rose de Lima campus, effective July 1.