* Attorneys Timothy D. Scott and Lyle A. Wallace joined Otten, Johnson, Robinson, Neff and Ragonetti P.C. as shareholders and directors with the business transactions and tax practice group.
* United Western Bank's small-business lending division named Chris Nalley as senior business development officer.
* Denver-based Qdoba Mexican Grill promoted David Craven to director of marketing.
* LibertyGives donated $25,000 to Goodwill Industries of Denver to fund a program serving homeless high school students within Denver Public Schools.
* Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Cooperative & Economic Development Center hired Bill Midcap as a rural economic development specialist/cooperative outreach coordinator.
* The U.S. Department of Agriculture gave its Grand Challenge award to Colorado State University for its Clean Energy Supercluster that aims to reduce the accumulation of greenhouse gases.
* Tendril hired Andy Wheeler as chief technology officer, Kent Dickson as vice president of engineering and Marcelo Bergquist as vice president of operations.
* Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association members re-elected Amy L. Nichols to a school division seat and Richard A. Delk to a state division seat on its board of trustees.
* Elevations Credit Union named Chris Smith as manager of the new Longmont Main Street Branch office.
* The Society for Human Resource Management and the Great Place to Work Institute named Douglas County-based InsureMe as one of the nation's top 25 places to work.
* Mental Health America of Colorado added board members Thomas Barrett, Dyana Furmansky, Herbert Merrill and Scott Mitchell and named Stephen Kopanos as vice president of public policy and systems advocacy, Laura VanDeusen as vice president of education and outreach and Kate Adams as network and planning council coordinator.
* Aspen-based Promo Communications named Alexandra de L'Arbre as account manager.
* Janice L. Butler joined Guardian Mortgage Documents as vice president of compliance.
* The American Society of Interior Designers Colorado Chapter gave Denver-based Nielsen-Wilson Design awards for Residence over 5,000 Square Feet, Design Elements, and Un-Built, Non-Commissioned Work.
* The Colorado Community College System appointed Kerry Hart as president of Morgan Community College.
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