BUSINESS PEOPLE

AGRICULTURE

Kelly Robbins has been selected as the new executive director of the Arkansas Rice Federation, effective Aug. 1.

BUSINESS

Lonnie Robinson, M.D., of Mountain Home, has been elected to the Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield board of directors.

Sean McCarron has joined environmental consulting firm CTEH as a scientific expert.

AgHeritage Farm Credit Services has promoted Clay

Cannon to vice president of Lending and manager of the Pine Bluff branch.

LEGAL

Madeline O. McElhanon has joined Friday Eldredge & Clark in the Finance & Commercial Transactions Group where she will work primarily on transactions in the banking, health care, real estate and technology industries.

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. announced Allison Raley has joined the firm as counsel in the Rogers office.

MEDICINE

Baptist Health Women’s Clinic-Conway recently welcomed obstetrician-gynecologist Audrey Tobey, M.D., to its team. Dr. Geoffrey Dunaway

and Michelle Henderson,

APRN have been employed by the Baxter Regional Health System, working from the

Willow Street Hometown Clinic in Harrison.

P. Shea Brannan, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences as a hand and upper extremity orthopaedic surgeon practicing at UAMS Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. Dr. Matt Peckat recently joined the team of providers at Baptist Health Family Clinic-Bryant, providing medical services to residents in Saline County and surrounding areas. Megan Minniear-Corrons, M.D., was recently hired as a family medicine physician at Mercy Clinic Primary Care, a new location in Clarksville.

NONPROFIT

The 4-H National Council has selected Arkansas 4-H member Sara Gardner of Fayetteville to serve on its Young Alumni Advisory Committee.

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