People In Business

Gori Julian & Associates, P.C. has announced that Matthew S. Nelke has joined the firm as an attorney. Nelke will be working in the Edwardsville office focusing on the practice area of asbestos litigation. Matthew Nelke was born and raised in St. Louis and resides there today. He attended the University of Missouri – Columbia…

HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in O’Fallon is recognizing Rochelle Holmes, RN from AltonL as an “I Promise” award recipient. The honor recognizes both clinical and non-clinical hospital colleagues who have been nominated for demonstrating the hospital’s four Core Values of Respect, Care, Competence and Joy. For the month of January, Holmes, an HSHS Southern Illinois…

    HSHS Medical Group Family & Internal Medicine in Highland has added Lauren Lawson, APRN, to its team of providers.     Lawson is now accepting patients of all ages at HSHS Medical Group Family & Internal Medicine, 12860 Troxler Ave., Suite 320, in Highland.     Lawson completed her bachelor’s in community health education at Illinois…

    Illinois Realtors has named Young Brockhouse as vice president of professional development.     Brockhouse, 46, will oversee professional development programs for the statewide association’s more than 50,000 members. He replaces Kristen Butcher, CMP, who was recently named executive vice president of Illinois Realtors.    Brockhouse, of Springfield, has more than 20 years of experience with…

    Kyle Lane has joined the Commercial Practice Group as an associate at the law firm of Goldenberg Heller & Antognoli, P.C., a personal injury and business and commercial litigation firm serving the St. Louis-Southern Illinois region.     His experience includes court matters involving taxes, bankruptcy, trusts, foreclosures, decedent estates, commercial transactions and insurance.    Lane…

    Edwardsville-based Gori Julian & Associates, P.C. says Evan R. Cole joined the firm as an attorney, working at the California office in the practice area of asbestos litigation.    Cole graduated from Arizona State University with a B.A. in Communications in 2002. He then graduated from the University of Louisville with an M.S. in Sports…

    Fairview Heights-based IMPACT Strategies recently promoted Travis Schwartz from project engineer to assistant project manager. Schwartz will take on an expanded leadership role in managing construction projects.     Schwartz is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a degree in construction management and has been with IMPACT Strategies since the summer of 2017.…

    Kent Kampwerth, River City Construction, L.L.C., Benton, Ill., was recently re-elected president of the Southern Illinois Builders Association.     Other officers for 2019 are: First Vice President Hank Rohwedder, Hank’s Excavating & Landscaping Inc., Belleville; Second Vice President Jeff Limbaugh, Limbaugh Construction Co. Inc., Granite City; and Secretary/Treasurer Kent Richardson, Subsurface Constructors Inc., St.…

    In the recently published 2019 Illinois Super Lawyers listing, three attorneys from law firm Heyl Royster’s Edwardsville office were named 2019 Illinois Super Lawyers.     Office managing partner/shareholder Kent Plotner was listed as a 2019 Illinois Super Lawyer in the Class Action/Mass Torts category. In the category Civil Litigation: Defense, partner Barry Noeltner was…

WellCare Health Plans, Inc. has named Karen E. Brach state president of MeridianHealth Illinois. Brach will be responsible for the overall strategy and operations of the health plan, including its Medicaid plan, Medicare-Medicaid Alignment Initiative plan and both WellCare and Meridian’s Medicare Advantage plans in Illinois. WellCare completed its acquisition of Meridian on Sept. 1,…