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Nurse practitioner Kelly Patterson, APRN, recently joined Baptist Health Medical Group Cardiothoracic Surgery. She has more than 10 years of experience providing nursing care to patients in western Kentucky. A board-certified nurse practitioner, Patterson earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from Murray State University and a master's degree in the Family Nurse Practitioner program at Union University, in Jackson, Tennessee.

Amy Futrell has joined FNB Bank as the market president for Murray-Calloway County. She brings over 30 years of banking experience having served in various roles including mortgage loan originator, vice president, special assets and vice president, retail sales. Futrell is a graduate of Murray State University with a bachelor's degree in business with an area in finance.

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Kentucky has announced the appointment of the Honorable Alan C. Stout as the Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge for the district effective. He succeeds Judge Thomas H. Fulton, who had served in that role since December 31, 2012. Chief Judge Stout has served as a United States Bankruptcy Judge in the district since October 25, 2011. He will continue to hold court in Louisville and Paducah.

WPSD Local 6 has announced one promotion and one new employee on its staff.

Elizabeth Neelley was recently promoted to local sales manager. She has extensive experience serving the region as a local account executive for 14 years. Prior to joining WPSD, Neelley worked in the editorial and publicity department of Broadman and Holman Publishing in Nashville, the publishing division of Lifeway Corporation. A Paducah native, she is a graduate of Samford University with a BA in journalism and mass communications.

LouAnn Simpson joins WPSD as traffic manager. She has 38 years of experience in broadcasting, including positions in accounts receivable, national sales, and traffic management.

Zachary VanVactor has been promoted to member (partner) in the law firm, Stites & Harbison, PLLC. He is part of the firm's business litigation service group, Louisville and Jeffersonville, Indiana offices. VanVactor regularly works at both the trial and appellate level in state and federal courts around the country. His practice focuses on business litigation, class action and multidistrict litigation, financial services litigation, pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, intellectual property litigation and professional liability defense. He is a native of Possum Trot in Marshall County. Prior to joining Stites & Harbison, he served for two years as a law clerk for the Honorable Thomas B. Russell, U.S. District Judge, in Paducah.

Flagship Communities, which operates 44 housing communities in four states including Kentucky, has acquired its second residential manufactured housing community in Paducah, Southwood Pointe. With the addition, Flagship now owns over 225 lots in the Paducah market. Southwood Pointe is located at 749 Bleich Road, Paducah.

Daniel Richardson, Eddyville, has moved his real estate license to Lake Homes Realty. With the brokerage, Richardson will specialize in lake homes and land on and around Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley.

Dr. Pat Withrow has been named one of three new board members for the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. He is director of outreach and physician advisor at Baptist Health Paducah. A retired cardiologist, he previously served as a vice president and chief medical officer of the hospital, as well as director of the Heart Center. Withrow's recent advocacy work to promote a cigarette tax increase and a tobacco-free schools law follows a long history of health promotion efforts in the commonwealth. His "Wizard of Health" presentations for elementary students focus on healthy eating, exercise and refraining from smoking. He has toured more than 10 counties in western Kentucky presenting the program "The Adolescent Brain and Substance Abuse" to middle and high school students.

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