See more of this week’s Movers & Shakers, and submit your own announcement at ArkansasBusiness.com/Movers-Shakers.
Banking & Finance
Ashby Dickson has been promoted to ag consumer lender at AgHeritage Farm Credit Services of Little Rock. Dickson joined AgHeritage as a loan assistant at the Stuttgart branch in July 2021.
Cindy Corbit has been promoted to assistant vice president, merchant services sales and support officer at First Community Bank of Batesville. Corbit joined First Community Bank in 2008 as a teller in its Bald Knob branch.
Joey Walter has been named senior vice president and director of equipment finance at Citizens Bank of Batesville. Walter has more than 20 years of experience in commercial equipment finance.
Education
Darrell Morrison has been named vice chancellor for finance at the University of Arkansas — Pulaski Technical College of North Little Rock. Morrison previously was executive vice president for administration and finance at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.
Natalie Burgess and Jennie McNulty have been hired as major gifts officers at Hendrix College in Conway. Burgess holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Hendrix, and McNulty graduated from the University of Central Arkansas in Conway with a degree in writing and rhetoric. Sharon Kuhn has been hired as executive assistant of advancement. She has held administrative and project specialist positions at several universities, including UCA.
Energy
Catherine Nobles has been elected president of the Arkansas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners of Little Rock. Jason Carrington has been elected secretary. Jay Prudhomme will be past president. Andy Miller, Chris Rogers, Dave Howald and Howard Vernon have been elected to the board of directors.
Jenny Wiedower has joined the Arkansas Advanced Energy Association of Little Rock as associate director, programs. With more than two decades of experience in the energy and environment sector, Wiedower most recently worked with the U.S. Department of Energy as a physical scientist and policy adviser. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Rhodes College in Memphis and a master’s in environmental studies from the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.
Health Care
Chad Taylor has joined Conway Regional Health System as a physician assistant at the Conway Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Center. Taylor earned his physician assistant degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
Dr. Brent Ryals has joined Washington Regional Medical Center of Fayetteville as an emergency medicine physician. Ryals has 14 years of experience and previously worked at Washington Regional from 2017 to 2020. Dr. Cole Wood has been named medical director of infection prevention and control. Wood most recently served as an infectious disease physician at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro.
Dr. Chad E. Cragle has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock as a surgical oncologist specializing in liver, pancreatic and biliary system cancers. Cragle completed a fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Dr. Tim Langford has been invested in the Steven K. Wilson Endowed Chair in Prosthetic Urology. Langford is a professor and chair of the UAMS Department of Urology.
Dr. Mina Michael has joined Baptist Health Rehabilitation Institute-Conway. Michael previously was medical director of inpatient rehabilitation at Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Russellville.
Legal
Matt Boch, a transition partner at the Little Rock branch of Kutak Rock LLP of Omaha, Nebraska, has been named the Lawrence L. “Larry” Lasser Tax Judge of the Year for 2025 for his service as chief commissioner of the Arkansas Tax Appeals Commission.
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