accounting

Sonja Morris has joined Allen, Gibbs & Houlik as a payroll supervisor to its outsourcing services department.

banking

Emprise Bank has announced the following promotions and new hires: Jessica Snyder to assistant vice president and bank manager; Bryan Blundell to assistant vice president and bank manager; Deborah Ruemler to senior vice president and division manager for human resources; Meagan Wells to personal banker; Sheryl Harris to customer service manager/personal banker; and Sarah Riepe to loan servicing specialist. New hires include Lisa Benning , exception item specialist, and Robert Wall , personal banker.

entertainment

Scott Neal has been promoted to assistant general manager and director of events at Intrust Bank Arena.

health care

Brian Schmidt has joined Prairie View as the medical staff coordinator.

insurance

Wes Sawyer of Andover has been named District 653 Agent of the Month by American Family Insurance.

American Family Insurance agents Ken Schuette, Chris Post, P.S. Sengvilay, Brad Woody and Laurie Gregory have all earned the Distinguished Insurance Agency distinction from J.D. Power and Associates.

Mac Milleson has joined the Kansas General office of New York Life Insurance Co. as an agent.

law

Tom Hammond with the law firm of Hammond, Zongker & Farris has been selected for inclusion in the 2009 Super Lawyers for Kansas and Missouri and Super Lawyers 2009 Corporate Counsel.

real estate

Sheryl Lydon has joined Prudential Dinning-Beard's east office as a sales associate.

Stan Brown has joined the west office of Prudential Dinning-Beard as a sales associate.