HHM adds manager, accountants
HHM CPAs, Chattanooga’s largest locally owned CPA firm, has hired a senior manager, four staff accountants and an administrative assistant.
HHM’s tax and audit departments have gained senior manager Astrid Williford, staff accountants Brandon Ramsey, Elizabeth Clark, Nicholas Patrick and Bradley McClung and administrative assistant Makaylah Everett.
“We hire talented people who are dedicated to serving our diverse clients throughout the Southeast,” said Donnie Hutcherson, managing partner of HHM CPAs. “We are happy they have chosen to work alongside HHM’s existing professionals in both Chattanooga and Memphis offices.”
Williford has more than 23 years of tax supervision and management experience, while Ramsey, Clark, Patrick, McClung and Everett have governmental, small business, and corporate experience.
Morris joins law firm of Hurst & Cromie
Hurst & Cromie PLLC announces the addition of Zachary Morris to the firm’s team. Morris will provide support to the boutique firm’s growth in Chattanooga and across the region.
Morris joins James Hurst, Allison Cromie and Philip Meyer in H&C’s Chattanooga office. Prior to joining the firm, Morris served as associate general counsel for a large facility services corporation in Tennessee where he focused on employment law and litigation. Morris is a certified mediator under Rule 31 Tennessee and has participated in more than 500 mediations.
Hurst & Cromie PLLC specializes in commercial transactions, real estate development, mergers and acquisitions and health care transactions.
Harthorn joins WTVC, GMC news teams
Jessica Harthorn, an award-winning broadcast journalist who has been a television reporter and anchor in Michigan and New York, has joined the morning news team for Good Morning Chattanooga and GMC FOX edition.
She is an Emmy-nominated journalist for her work on a cold case murder and was a lead reporter on crime, government, waste and community concerns. She spent the past six years as reporter and weekend anchor with Sinclair Broadcast Group at WWMT-TV in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Before moving to West Michigan, she spent a year as an anchor/reporter for WEYI-TV in Clio, Mich., where she won the 2010 Best Individual Reporter award from the Michigan Associated Press. Jessica also won the 2011 State Bar of Michigan Wade McCree Award in the broadcast category for her series on a father fighting to change Michigan’s Paternity Act.
Prior to WEYI-TV, Jessica spent two years at WICZ-TV in Birmingham, N.Y., as the 6 p.m. anchor.
In 2009, the New York Associated Press awarded Jessica first place for Best News Series on her coverage of struggling dairy farmers. The series later won the New York State Agricultural Society Cap Creal Journalism Award.
Harthorn is a native of Dansville, Mich.
Jack McCallie tapped for BlueCross board
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has elected Dr. Jack McCallie to serve on its board of directors.
Dr. McCallie, an internist, has practiced medicine in Chattanooga for 30 years. After completing his medical education, he joined his father’s medical practice in 1987. Today, the practice is part of Beacon Health Alliance’s Ridgeside Internal Medicine. In addition to his private practice work, Dr. McCallie served for more than 25 years as staff physician at the McCallie School, the college-prep institution he attended and which his grandfather founded in 1905.
“Jack’s deep roots in the Chattanooga community and background in primary care will be of great benefit to our members,” said J.D. Hickey, BlueCross president and CEO.
“His experiences as a physician will help support and inform our mission of providing peace of mind through better health to Tennesseans.”
Dr. McCallie earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia in 1979 and his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1984. He completed an internship at the University of Alabama, Birmingham in 1985, and a residency at the University of Alabama Hospital in 1987. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
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