BUSINESS PEOPLE

BANKING

Drake Hill has been hired as an agriculture loan lending officer with AgHeritage Farm Credit Services in the McGehee Branch office.

Farmers & Merchants Bank announced that Meg Johnston, Sam Tarkington, and Kirk Vansandt have been named to the bank’s board of directors.

EDUCATION

Richard Woolridge, associate professor of information systems, has been named the interim chair of the Department of Management, Marketing, and Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Robert Mitchell has been appointed director of the School of Business at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

LaTonda Williams has been named the new associate vice chancellor of human resources for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

ENVIRONMENT

Tony Ramick has joined the staff of the Bayou Meto Water Management District as assistant director.

MEDICAL

Hayden Shurgar is now chief legal officer at EngageMED, Inc.

Nurse practitioner Sandra Odom has joined Baptist Health Urgent Care’s health care team in Fort Smith.

Austin N. Barber, MD, is now on staff at Baxter Regional Medical Center and Baxter Regional Urology Clinic in Mountain Home.

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