New hires at Public Affairs Research Council, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, McGlinchey Stafford | Business

Baton Rouge

Alejandro “Al” Perkins has been named managing partner of Hammonds, Sills, Adkins, Guice, Noah & Perkins.

Perkins will serve and support nearly 30 attorneys at the firm’s Baton Rouge, Monroe and Bossier City offices.

He is an appointed member of the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana system and a member of the 100 Black Men of Baton Rouge Board of Directors. Most recently, he was inducted into Southern University Law Center’s Hall of Fame.

Perkins earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Xavier University and a law degree from the Southern University Law Center. He was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from Grambling State University in recognition of his service to higher education and the community.

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Jane Dunn is the new development director for the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana.

Dunn comes to the nonprofit policy research organization with almost 20 years of fundraising experience in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. She has held development roles at Catholic High School, Baton Rouge General Foundation, Paul M. Hebert LSU Law Center and Lighthouse Louisiana.

She earned a bachelor’s degree from LSU.

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Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center has added two members to its leadership team.

Angela Hammett is director of navigation and support services.

Hammett has more than 20 years experience providing patient education and outreach in Baton Rouge, most recently as the community education manager for Woman’s Hospital. She is a founding board member of the Louisiana Chapter of Women in Healthcare and serves as the organization’s board secretary.

She earned a master’s degree in nursing leadership and management from Western Governors University.

Mandy Shipp is director of clinical research. She has more than 20 years experience facilitating contracts and managing budgets. Shipp most recently served as director of clinical resources-clinical trials unit at Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in dietetics from LSU and completed a dietetic internship at North Oaks Medical Center.

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Lucas Schenk has joined the commercial litigation group at McGlinchey Stafford as an associate in the Baton Rouge office.

Schenk previously served as an associate attorney at Taylor, Wellons, Politz, & Duhe, where he primarily worked in general liability defense and developed his own collections practice.

Schenk joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 2012 and interned on several occasions with the U.S. Department of State.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, magna cum laude, from Northwestern State University and a law degree from the Paul M. Hebert LSU Law Center. He was voted “Best Oral Advocate” and winner of the spring 2019 Ira S. Flory Mock Trial Competition. Schenk served as a law clerk for Judge Chris Hester at Baton Rouge City Court and as a judicial extern for Magistrate Judge Richard L. Bourgeois Jr. at the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana.

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Brenda Guess has been named assistant secretary of Louisiana Economic Development.

Guess is a 35-year veteran of the agency who has been director of LED’s Business Incentive Services since 2012. She replaces Mandi Mitchell, who became president and CEO of the Lafayette Economic Development Authority in November.

Before joining LED in 1987, Guess spent six years in Baton Rouge municipal government and six years in private sector business management.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a master’s degree in public administration, both from Southern University.

New Orleans

Norman E. Anseman III, Kristopher M. Gould and Eric R. Price have become members of Perrier & Lacoste.

Anseman has been with the firm since 2020, specializing in casualty litigation, commercial transportation, labor and employment, maritime, oil and gas and product liability. He earned his undergraduate and law degrees from LSU.

Gould has been with the firm since 2019, specializing in insurance coverage, insurance defense, personal injury defense and workers’ compensation. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law.

Price has been with the firm since 2020, specializing in commercial disputes, commercial transportation, insurance coverage, medical malpractice and municipal liability. He earned his undergraduate degree from Mississippi State University and his law degree from the University of Mississippi.

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Woodward Design+Build has made two new hires.

Stephen Kirsch is the director of human resources and talent development.

Kirsch has more than 22 years of human resources experience.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Joel Ross is director of strategic partnership, responsible for developing new clients. He was previously director of architecture at Concordia and a founding member of the New Orleans Young Urban Rebuilding Professionals and the Creative Alliance of New Orleans.

He is a graduate of the Tulane University School of Architecture.

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Michelle Biermann Treschwig has been named as a partner with Kushner LaGraize, a certified public accounting firm.

Treschwig joined the firm in 2001. She specializes in audits of governmental entities and has experience auditing not-for-profits, employee benefit and pension plans, and various commercial enterprises.

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Tim McCarthy has been hired as tax operations director for Postlethwaite & Netterville in the firm’s Metairie office.

McCarthy has more than 30 years of experience in numerous industries including executive roles in accounting and human resources.

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Ha’reanna Campbell has been named DRIVe innovation program manager at the New Orleans BioInnovation Center, a private, not-for-profit business incubator.

The center is collaborating with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to advance emerging technologies in the areas of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats, as well as sepsis, pandemic influenza, and infectious disease. The DRIVe Program is a BARDA initiative to accelerate the development and availability of transformative technologies and approaches to protect Americans from health security threats,

She earned a doctorate of pharmacy from the Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy.

Around Louisiana

Sarah Head has been named director of development and public relations for Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services.

Head joins the organization as it looks to complete its capital campaign benefiting the Methodist Children’s Home of Southeast Louisiana in Loranger. LUMCFS was forced to close its Methodist Children’s Home in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and purchased 123 acres for the new comprehensive facility to serve abused and neglected children. The new home will replace a temporary north shore facility and is expected to open this spring.

Head comes from Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked in brand marketing at Buntin.

She earned a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana Tech University and a master’s degree in marketing from Vanderbilt University.

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Jones Walker has elected new partners, and elected Richard Cortizas and reelected Rivers Lelong to its board of directors for four-year terms.

Cortizas is a member of the corporate practice group in the New Orleans office and serves as the firm’s chief diversity officer. He focuses on transactional matters, representing clients in complex land use and zoning matters, public finance, and economic development projects. 

Lelong is a member of the corporate practice group and a reelected member of the firm’s board of directors. His practice involves a variety of commercial transactions comprising secured finance, real estate, acquisitions and divestitures of privately held companies and their assets, and the negotiation of sophisticated commercial contracts. 

The following are new partners:

Gibbons Addison, a member of the litigation practice group in the Baton Rouge office. 

Nick Irmen, a member of the tax practice group in the New Orleans office. 

John Morris, a member of the corporate practice group in the Baton Rouge and Lafayette offices. 

Rose Sher, a member of the tax practice group and the trusts & estates team in the New Orleans office. 

Victoria Bagot, a member of the corporate practice group and the corporate, securities, and executive compensation team in the New Orleans office. 

Jason Culotta, a member of the labor and employment practice group in the New Orleans office. 

Thomas Slattery, a member of the litigation practice group as well as the corporate compliance and white collar defense team in the New Orleans office.