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This is a weekly roundup of promotions, appointments and employee accomplishments in the Birmingham metro area. For more People on the Move, check out the Birmingham Business Journal’s print edition each week. Send announcements to ccrawford@bizjournals.com.

ACCOUNTING

Anna Kathryn Ellis, director of business development at Payroll & Benefit Solutions, was named Hoover Area Chamber of Commerce Ambassador of the Year.

CONSTRUCTION

Doug Jeffords with Jeffords Associates of Birmingham was awarded a contract to monitor and provide owner’s representative services for the construction and renovation work at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville. Jeffords is former vice president of construction for Colonial Properties Trust.

LEGAL

Charlie Waldrep, founding partner of Waldrep Stewart & Kendrick law firm, will speak at Faulkner University Jones School of Law on April 7 about establishing a law practice. Waldrep started his firm in 1978. Waldrep concentrates in representing public agencies with a primary emphasis in civil litigation.

Amy K. Myers, an attorney with Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker LLC, presented a seminar entitled “Temporary and Permanent Visa Options for Professionals: An Overview of Strategies” on Feb. 27 at Baptist Campus Ministries in Birmingham. The program discussed key immigration strategies for highly educated foreign nationals seeking to work in the United States.

Sirote & Permutt attorneys Harold Apolinsky and Craig Stephens, along with expert financial planner Stewart Welch, recently co-authored and published the third edition of J.K. Lasser's New Rules for Estate and Tax Planning. Apolinsky is an estate planning professional. Stephens is co-chair of the firm's Estates, Wills, and Trusts practice group. His practice focuses on representing individuals in the estate planning process, with a focus on tax minimization strategies.

MEDIA

Luckie & Co. Senior Vice President Mike Murphy has been awarded a 2009 Silver Medal by the Birmingham chapter of the American Advertising Federation. Murphy was nominated for the award by longtime friends and colleagues at Luckie. Murphy joined Luckie & Forney in 1980 as the head of the South Central Bell advertising account. Today, he leads a department of 15 people who work primarily on direct marketing for AT&T. Murphy is also the head of Luckie & Co.’s San Antonio office, which opened in 2007.

UNIVERSITIES

Gary Warner, the director of research in computer forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been named the country’s “Most Popular Security Blogger” after a vote of information-security peers and blog readers in Secure Computing Magazine. Warner’s blog, CyberCrime & Doing Time, is read by thousands each month. Site visitors range from information-security insiders to media members who report on the technology beat to novice computer users concerned about cyber crime threats. Read the blog at http://garwarner.blogspot.com.

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing professor Marti Rice has been elected president of the Southern Nursing Research Society. Rice joined UAB School of Nursing in 1997 and teaches research methods, statistics and child-health theories and concepts and emerging child-health issues in the Leadership Education in Child Health Nursing program, a grant funded by the Maternal Child Health Bureau.

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