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32 May 12 - 18, 2014 | fwbusinesspress.com unewsmakers from page 30 waste industry professional, was inducted into the national waste and recycling industry’s Hall of Fame. Brown was president and COO of Progressive Waste Brown Solutions and served in several capacities with the National Waste & Recycling Association, including a decade as chairman of its Texas Chapter. CastrelCastrellon lon, a driver for Republic Services Inc., was named the National Waste & Recycling Association’s Driver of the Year in the Large Industrial Category. He has driven in Fort Worth for 15 years and was selected from among 908 nominees from across the country. Paul Dorman, Charles “Chuck” Hoffman and Diane Davis Gerber were honored during the 63rd Multicultural Alliance Annual Awards Dinner May 6 in Fort Worth. Dorman is chairman and CEO of DFB Pharmaceuticals, a Fort Worth-based holding company. Hoffman and Gerber received Lifetime Achievement Awards for their service to MCA and to Camp CommUNITY. Omar Ramos, principal at Fort Worth Independent School District’s Trimble Tech High School, is the recipient of the 2014 Bayard H. Friedman Hero Award presented by the Fort Worth Safe Communities Coalition and Score A Goal In The Classroom school incentive program. Ramos is recognized as being the most outstanding school principal in North Texas. Kenneth Roemer, an English professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, is one of five faculty members who will be inducted this year into the University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Roemer is an expert in American Indian and Utopian literatures. He was honored in 2011 Roemer with the UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teacher Award and previously has been honored as a UT Arlington Distinguished Scholar Professor and as a Distinguished Teaching Professor. LAW David R. Seidler, a mediator and arbitrator, has again joined Shannon, Gracey, Ratliff & Miller LLP as a partner in the Fort Worth office. Christian Ellis also joined as a partner in the Fort Worth office. Seidler’s practice focuses on alternative dispute resolution and commercial litigation. Ellis represents owners, design professionals, general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers in construction cases involving construction defects, design errors, delay claims, Seidler cost overruns, lien and bond claims, and bid disputes. REAL ESTATE Northern Realty Group added Brandy O’Quinn as a commercial real estate broker. She brings 20 years of public policy experience to her new role. Since 2007, she has provided economic development consulting with her independent firm, Urban Strategies of Texas. O’Quinn, a certified economic developer, served on the city of Fort Worth’s Zoning Commission for O’Quninn nearly four years. She previously was president of the Camp Bowie District, where she founded and produced the Jazz By The Boulevard Music and Arts Festival for seven years. She also was director of business development with the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce from 1994-2000. FOOTWEAR Tony Lama Boots promoted Cole Carter to national sales manager. Carter joined the brand in 2010 as an independent sales representative and was responsible for the Florida and Georgia territory for Tony Lama Boots. He will expand his role to focus on growing the existing customer base, leveraging existing and introducing new distribution channels for the brand and working alongside the sales force to enhance the brand on a national scale. NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Amanda Stallings, executive director of Gill Children’s Services since September 2004, has been named the executive director of the JPS Health Foundation. Stallings previously served as a probation and parole officer with the Department of Corrections and the Tarrant County Supervision and CorrecStallings tions Department. She has chaired the Cook Children’s Oral Health Coalition since 2005. Megan Boschini, Gill board member, will serve as interim executive director while the organization searches for Stallings’ replacement.  Send newsmakers to Betty Dillard at [email protected]