Gov. Bill Owens has appointed Robert D. Hawthorne of Limon, William G. Kaufman of Loveland, Terry E. Schooler of Colorado Springs and William G. Swenson of Longmont to four-year terms on the Colorado Transportation Commission.

Hawthorne is an attorney with 30 years of experience in law, specializing in real estate, business and litigation. Hawthorne is active in many community activities, including the Limon Rotary Club, where he served as president, and the Limon Chamber of Commerce.

Kaufman will represent District Five, which includes Larimer, Weld and Morgan counties. He is currently an attorney with his own private firm and served as a state representative from 1992 to 2000. For four of the years as a representative, he served on the Transportation Committee. Kaufman also served on the Loveland-Fort Collins Authority board for six years.

Schooler is a principal of Schooler & Associates, a consulting firm for land development and construction management. He also served as a former chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Transportation Subcommittee and is a board member of the Garden of the Gods Transportation Management Association.

Swenson will represent District Four, which includes Boulder and Adams counties.
Swenson, a former engineer and systems analyst, served as a state representative from 1994 to 2002. During his term, he served as the chairman of the House Transportation and Energy Committee and a member of the House Local Government Committee. He was also appointed to the Advanced Technology Institute Board of Commissioners and served as the co-chairman of the Transportation Legislative Review Committee.

David Amalong and Jenny Staroska, landscape architects with EDAW's Denver office, have recently earned their certification as LEEDTM - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - certified professionals.

Amalong is an EDAW associate with more than 15 years of experience in landscape architecture, planning and urban design projects.

Staroska has an environmental planning and design background and more than five years experience in regional and site master planning, parks and recreation design and administration and urban design.

Jonathan (Mike) Rush, AIA, has been promoted to an associate with AlleroLingle Architects PC of Fort Collins. He is the first associate to be named by the firm. Rush is a registered architect and joined the firm in 1999. He has nine years of experience in housing and elementary, secondary and higher education projects.

Roger Miller has been appointed managing director of the Colorado Springs office of Nolte, an engineering and surveying firm. Miller has more than 24 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. He specializes in transportation planning and traffic engineering and has extensive experience in transportation studies, transit studies, transportation modeling, cost estimating, traffic signal system and signal design, intersection analyses and computer software applications.

Dwight Gilbert to been promoted to an associate with Redwine Engineers Inc., a Denver-based structural consulting firm. Gilbert has been with the firm since his graduation from the Colorado School of Mines in 1995. As a project engineer, he has worked closely with architectural clients in designing structural systems for large projects, in addition to being the company administrator for both local and wide-area networks. He becomes the second associate of Redwine Engineers.

Murray K. McBride, PE, has re-joined Sellards & Grigg Inc., a consulting engineering and land surveying firm in Lakewood. McBride will work as the firm's senior project manager/business development.

McBride was a Sellards & Grigg staff member from 1982 to 1991. He has been licensed in Colorado as a professional engineer since 1984 and has more than 23 years of experience in the field. McBride specializes in planning, design and construction-related services for projects involving roadways, drainage and flood control, water and sewer utilities and general site development services.

Michael Simpson, senior associate, and Jenny Ranville, architect, with RNL Design have been designated LEED™ - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - certified professionals by the U.S. Green Building Council.

In addition, the firm recognized that Senior Planner George Harrison earned his American Institute of Certified Planners certification.

Sveta Dynnikova with Moody Insurance Agency - which offers risk management, insurance and bonding services - has been promoted to employee benefits specialist. In her new role, Dynnikova helps businesses design customized employee benefits programs, incorporating health, life, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability and long-term care insurance and 401(k) plans.

Dynnikova joined Moody Insurance Agency as an employee benefits account manager in 1999. She is a member of the National Association of Health Underwriters and the Colorado State Association of Health Underwriters.

Rick Fahnline, a mechanical engineer with The RMH Group, recently passed his electrical professional engineer's exam and is now also licensed as an electrical engineer in Colorado. Fahnline joined the firm in 1998 and is currently providing design for Lockheed Martin's new central chiller plant and for renovation of the Byron G. Rogers Federal Courthouse in Denver.

Ashraf Sadek, PE, with The Durrant Group Inc. has been appointed as the market sector leader for the firm's project delivery division, and Dennis Thompson, AIA, NCARB, has been appointed as the leader of the firm's retail division.

Sadek has more than 23 years of experience in international architectural design, engineering, construction management, contract administration, specification writing, budgeting, cost estimating and operation and maintenance. He is a licensed professional engineer in the United States and a licensed architect in Egypt and the Middle East.

With 25 years of architectural/planning practice, Thompson has been involved in design, analysis, preparation of contract documents, land planning, cost estimating, construction administration and technical services inspection for approximately 360 project totaling more than $500 million and seven million sq ft.

Scott Menefee with Opus Northwest, a full-service real estate developer serving the northwestern region of the United States, has been promoted from director of real estate development to senior director.

In his new role, Menefee will be responsible for development coordination, including conceiving and implementation of new projects. Menefee joined Opus in 1997 and has completed the development, leasing and sale of numerous large-scale projects.

Menefee is a registered broker in Colorado, a member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties and is on the transportation committee for the Downtown Denver Partnership.