New partners with Nalley, Dew and Miner, Wegmann Dazet

New Orleans

Andrew J. Miner has been made partner with the Metairie law firm of Nalley and Dew.

The firm has been renamed Nalley, Dew and Miner.

Julie S. Meaders has joined the firm as an associate.

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Kristin Crawford has been named director of sales and marketing for Kimpton Hotel Fontenot.

Crawford joins the team most recently from Royal Sonesta in New Orleans where she held the position of director of sales and marketing. Prior to that, she served as director of sales at The Adolphus in Dallas and, before that, held multiple leadership positions for luxury and lifestyle properties in Austin, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Kimpton Hotel Fontenot is a 202-room hotel in New Orleans’ Central Business District.

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Amanda Polkey has been promoted to division manager-diversified at Complete Logistical Services, a nationwide staffing company based in St. Bernard Parish.

Polkey has over 20 years of experience in the staffing and recruiting industry. She has consulted with headhunting and staffing firms across 11 states primarily focusing on IT, engineering, accounting and office services.

She earned an associate’s degree in business management from Delgado Community College and a bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of New Orleans.

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Wegmann Dazet, a certified public accounting firm with offices in Metairie and Covington, announced the following personnel moves:

• James Hargrove and Richard Tullier are now partners.
• Allison Civello has been promoted to senior manager.
• Christopher Torres has been promoted to manager II.

Baton Rouge

Stan Meiburg, Craig Colten and Ann Weaver have joined The Water Institute as senior advisers.

Meiburg has 39 years of experience with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, including service as EPA’s acting deputy administrator from 2014 to 2017. He is director of graduate studies in sustainability at Wake Forest University. He earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in political science from Johns Hopkins University.

Colten, The Water Institute’s founding director of human dimensions from 2013 to 2015, is professor emeritus of geography at LSU and has studied the historical geography of hazards for more than 35 years. He is a fellow of the American Association of Geographers and earned a doctorate from Syracuse University.

Weaver has extensive experience as a facilitator and trainer in the public and private sector, most recently as the acting chief learning officer with NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service. She has a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Washington and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology from Florida Atlantic University.

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Glen Duncan has joined Quality Engineering and Surveying of Denham Springs as client support director.

Duncan has served in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, specializing in marketing, public relations, sales and business relationships. Formerly with Amoco Production Co., WBRZ-TV, The Pennington Biomedical Research Center and The Louisiana House of Representatives, he most recently served as client support director for Professional Engineering Corp. of Baton Rouge.