Who’s making career moves in the Chattanooga business community?

Derek Rende joins Brock Insurance Agency as a commercial and personal lines producer. A local Chattanoogan and graduate of The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, he assists business and individuals for any and all their insurance needs.

Terri Hernandez is named director of academic advising at Chattanooga State Community College. She brings more than 12 years experience in higher education to the position. A native of Indiana, Hernandez completed missionary work in Belize before enlisting in the United States Air Force. She served as a personnel specialist with cross training as a security specialist for six years before receiving an honorable discharge allowing her to actively begin pursuing higher education degrees.

Cody Sims; Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor (CRPC), Accredited Asset Management Specialist (AAMS), Accredited Wealth Management Advisor (AWMA); Financial Advisor and Franchise Owner with Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. recently moved his offices to a new location at Brabson Place, 412 Georgia Avenue, downtown Chattanooga. As an Ameriprise financial advisor and franchise owner, Sims provides financial advice that is anchored in a solid understanding of client needs and expectations, through one-on-one relationships with his clients.

Madeline Wade joins HHM Certified Public Accountants, a full- service CPA and consulting firm with locations in Chattanooga and Memphis, in the tax department after working as an intern. Prior to joining HHM, Madeline gained experience as a billing specialist at Southern Adventist University. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting. Madeline is pursuing her MAcc and plans to sit for the CPA exam.

Robert F. (Bob) Parsley, a litigation attorney with Miller & Martin’s Chattanooga office, is appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court to the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners. Parsley is one of five board members, each appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court, who oversee the Tennessee’s licensing of attorneys and addressing issues relating to the admission of attorneys by exam and through comity applications (where the attorney is already licensed in another jurisdiction). Before his appointment to the Board in 2020, Parsley served from 2016 through 2019 as a Tennessee Bar Examiner, with responsibility for preparing and grading bar exams. In that role he also authored the evidence and appellate procedural sections of the Tennessee Law Course, which all newly admitted Tennessee attorneys must take.