Tag: appointed

Longtime San Joaquin County defender appointed to bench

Mar. 30—Governor Gavin Newsom recently appointed Chrishna Martinez to serve as judge on the San Joaquin Superior Court bench. Martinez currently serves as a deputy public defender at the San Joaquin County Public Defender’s Office and has done so since 1999. As a deputy public defender, she has handled felony, misdemeanor, juvenile delinquency, and juvenile […]

Santa Fe attorney appointed First Judicial District family law judge

Mar. 25—Santa Fe attorney and mediator Denise Thomas soon will take the bench as a family law judge in the First Judicial District. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham appointed Thomas to the position Monday, filling a vacancy created by the recent retirement of Sylvia LaMar, who served in the position for more than a decade. Thomas […]

Santa Fe attorney Denise Thomas appointed to District Court judgeship

Mar. 25—Santa Fe attorney and mediator Denise Thomas soon will take the bench as a family law judge in the First Judicial District. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham appointed Thomas to the position Monday, filling a vacancy created by the recent retirement of Sylvia LaMar, who served in the position for more than a decade. Thomas […]

First female detective appointed at Beavercreek Police Department

The first-ever female detective has been appointed in the Beavercreek Police Department. Officer Casey McCain is the first-ever female detective in the Beavercreek Police Department’s history/. Officer McCain started working with the City of Beavercreek Police Department in February 2022, according to a Facebook post by Beavercreek PD. >> ‘Unfair and unjust;’ Community furious after […]

New attorney appointed in Van Wert murder case

Mar. 6—VAN WERT — A Rockford man charged with the murder in the shooting death last fall of Van Wert resident Barbara Ganger has obtained new legal counsel. Van Wert County Common Pleas Court Judge Martin Burchfield appointed Lima attorney Zach Maisch to represent Ryan Houser, 38, who was indicted in November on charges of […]

Washington School Advisory Committee members appointed

Feb. 27—On Monday, the Stillwater City Council appointed five members to the newly approved Washington School Advisory Committee. The Booker T. Washington School — also known as “Washington School,” the once all-Black school on West 12th Avenue in Stillwater — was desegregated after the last class graduated in 1956. The city acquired the closed and […]

Nikola CEO Girsky appointed as acting chief financial officer

(Reuters) – Nikola appointed its Chief Executive Stephen Girsky as the electric-truck maker’s acting chief financial officer on Feb. 14, according to a regulatory filing on Wednesday. This comes after the former Chief Financial Officer Anastasiya Pasterick resigned in November, less than a year after taking up the role. The U.S. electric truck maker named […]

Who is Ukraine’s new army chief appointed by Zelenskyy?

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The man Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Thursday to lead the country’s military has played a key role in some of Ukraine’s biggest victories in its war with Russia, including overseeing the successful defense of the capital in the early days of the invasion. Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, who had been […]

Kuleba invites newly appointed Moldovan foreign minister to Kyiv

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba congratulated Moldovan politician Mihai Popsoi on his appointment as the country’s new foreign minister and invited him to Kyiv, Kuleba said on Jan. 30. Popsoi assumed the role on Jan. 29 amid heightened tensions between Moldova and the breakaway region of Transnistria, as well as the Kremlin’s reported plans to […]