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newsmakers
BANKING & FINANCE

Williams

Manross

Biggins named to Texas Women’s Hall of Fame

L
Atcheson

Lewis

Deanna Williams is the new director of operations at Rogers Wealth
Group Inc. Williams joined the firm in
2013 as financial operations associate.
Amanda Atcheson has been promoted
to assistant director of operations with
the firm’s Advisor Services Division
following her tenure as administrative associate for the Retirement Plan
Services Division. Chris Manross and
Austin Lewis are new additions to the
associate financial advisers team.

BOARDS & ORGANIZATIONS
Cancer Care Services elected Christine Dittrich, a
consultant, as
chairman of the
2014 board. Other
officers include
Chairman-Elect
Steve Newton,
Baylor Health Care
System; ImmediDittrich
ate Past Chairman
Donna Mayes, Rylander, Clay and
Opitz; Treasurer Leslie Crites, Rylander, Clay and Opitz; Secretary Zach
Fullerton, First Financial Bank; Vice
President of Client Programs April Ciccarello, JPS Health Network; Vice President of Development Nancy Farrar,
Farrar Public Relations; and memberat-large Frank Testa, Cook Children’s
Health Care System. New members are
Marcela Gutierrez, University of North
Texas Health Science Center; Sandra
Head; Sally King, Cook Children’s
Medical Center; Michelle Smeller, The
Process Advisors; Mark Smith, U.S.
Trust, Bank of America; and Katherine
Stephens. Returning board members
are Diane Ayres, Fort Worth, Texas
magazine; Blair Chappell, UNT Health
Science Center; Pat Dohoney, Patrick S.
Dohoney & Associates; Linda Fulmer,
Fulmer & Associates; Ann Greenhill;
Angela Hoyt, Cotten, Schmidt & Abbott; Anne Syler; and Taryn Wilson,
Virginia Cook Realtors.
Stanley Block, a member of Calloway’s Nursery Inc.’s board since the

illie Biggins, the president
of Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, is
a member of the newest class in
the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame.
Other 2014 inductees include
Nandita Berry, Joanne Herring, Col.
Kim Olson, first lady Anita Perry,
Dr. Ann Stuart, Senfronia Thompson, Deborah Tucker and Carolyn
Wright.
Biggins, a Fort Worth native,
graduated from John Peter Smith
School of Nursing in 1971 and
earned a bachelor’s degree from
the University of Texas at Arlington and a master’s degree from
Texas Woman’s University. She
was an assistant clinical professor
in hospital administration at the
University of Texas Southwestern
Medical School in Dallas for six
years and currently is an adjunct
faculty member at UT Arlington.
Before joining Texas Health Fort
Worth, Biggins was chief nursing
officer at Columbia Plaza Medical Lillie Biggins
Center of Fort Worth and vice
president of east campus operations at Plaza Medical Center of Fort Worth. She has 21 years of nursing leadership experience between John Peter Smith Hospital and Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.
“I’m a critical care nurse at heart,” she said. “Leaving the bedside to take an administrative role was not an easy decision, but I felt called to do something more. You can make a
bigger impact the higher up you go.”
Biggins joined Texas Healt