Lillian Colby adds three
The Lillian L. Colby Charitable Foundation has added three new members to its board of directors: BettyeLynn Smith, Howard Roddy and Dr. Kathleen Hunt.
BettyeLynn Smith brings extensive leadership experience in the nonprofit, for-profit and government sectors. Since 2012, Smith has managed Thornhill-Smith LLC, a management consulting firm in Chattanooga.
Before founding the company, Smith served as executive director of Community Impact of Chattanooga, which was responsible for revitalizing seven local inner-city communities.
Smith is currently involved in the community through her work as a trustee of the University of Chattanooga Foundation, a member of the Chattanooga Area Convention & Visitors Bureau board and a member of the Rotary Club of Chattanooga.
Howard Roddy has more than 30 years of experience in health care management and leadership. Appointed in 2010 to the Tennessee Board of Regents by Gov. Phil Bredesen, Roddy serves as a member of the Ascension Health Senior Care board of directors and as vice chairman of the Chattanooga Area Salvation Army advisory board. Roddy is also a past chairman of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Health Council.
Dr. Kathleen Hunt, who currently practices medicine at Children's Hospital at Erlanger, is also actively engaged in the community, serving on the boards of several community organizations, including The Lyndhurst Foundation, Bright School, The Trust for Public Land, A Step Ahead and Chattanooga Elite Basketball. After completing her residency in pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and working in pediatric emergency medicine in Houston, Texas, Hunt graduated from Harvard Business School in 2001.
CapitalMark awarded 5 stars
CapitalMark Bank & Trust has once again been awarded a 5-Star rating from BauerFinancial, Inc., marking the bank's 14th consecutive quarter to be recognized as a lead performer.
BauerFinancial, an independent research and rating firm based in Coral Gables, Fla., has been analyzing and reporting on the performance of financial institutions since 1983. BauerFinancial uses key performance ratios to analyze banks and credit unions.
Additionally, recent deposit market share reports published by the FDIC highlight CapitalMark's deposit growth as it continues to outpace all other banks in the Chattanooga MSA with a 5-year compounded annual growth rate of 11.98 percent.
"CapitalMark's strength and stability as a financial institution can be attributed to our efficient banking model and experienced banker teams," said banking group president Kenny Dyer.
"By operating one full-service office per market and aligning one dedicated banker team per client, we have created a streamlined banking experience for clients."
Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel at top
Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C., a Chattanooga-based law firm, has been named a leading law firm in 14 different practice areas, according to the 2015 Best Law Firms rankings by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers.
Chambliss received first-tier rankings in bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization; commercial litigation; construction; corporate; employment/management; energy; health care; litigation/antitrust; litigation/labor and employment; patent; real estate; tax; trademark; and trusts and estates.
Baker Donelson among best
Baker Donelson has garnered 175 first-tier metropolitan rankings in the 2015 U.S. News -- Best Lawyers Best Law Firms list, the fifth edition of an annual analysis that includes more than 11,000 U.S. law firms.
These first-tier rankings across 11 metropolitan markets in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas and Washington, D.C., earned Baker Donelson a spot among the top 20 firms nationally, with the most first-tier metropolitan rankings.
In addition, Baker Donelson ranked nationally in 25 practice areas, including earning a first-tier national ranking in five practice areas, including construction, litigation/construction, litigation/labor and employment, mass tort litigation/class actions/defendants and railroad.
The firm was also named Law Firm of the Year in railroad law. Only one law firm in each of the nationally ranked legal practice areas received this recognition.
Additionally, Baker Donelson achieved the highest number of first-tier metropolitan rankings in Tennessee, with 97 practice areas ranked, including 19 in Chattanooga.
-- Compiled by Wesley Holloway, 423-757-6613. Send your digest items to wholloway@timesfree press.com.