Benner represents West Ohio Conference United Methodist Women. She is attending Church of the Cross United Methodist Church and participates in urban ministries of St. Paul UMC and Wesley Community Center, where she is also a Board member.
Dillon named criminal investigator
Montgomery County Prosecuting Attorney Mat Heck, Jr. announced that Tyson Dillon has been appointed to the position of Criminal Investigator and Secret Service Officer in the Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office.
Dillon received his Basic Police Officer Training Certificate from the Sinclair Police
Academy in 2009. He has more than seven years of police experience, most recently as
Police Sergeant with the Grandview Police Department. He has also worked as a police officer for the City of Riverside and served as a police officer in his hometown community, Germantown.
As a criminal investigator, Dillon will provide support for criminal felony cases, conduct general investigations of all types including consumer fraud complaints, criminal non-support cases, and locating witnesses and others involved in criminal cases.
Gudorf named board president
Gudorf Law Group has announced that Managing Attorney Ted Gudorf was recently elected President of the Life Essentials Board of Directors. Life Essentials is a non-profit organization serving seniors struggling with mental illness in Montgomery and Greene counties. Its core program is provide guardians to individuals who have no financial means and no family or friend willing or able to be the guardian. The Guardianship Angel Volunteers program trains adult volunteers to be friendly visitors who monitor the well-being, health and safety of adults under guardianship during monthly visits.
Gudorf is no stranger to helping the less fortunate. He is a Founding Trustee of the Greater Dayton Volunteer Lawyers Project (“GDVLP”). The GDVLP has provided more than $15 million in donated legal services since its inception in 1988.
Gudorf has the distinction of being the first attorney in Ohio to obtain a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) in estate planning and elder law. He is one of only 165 Ohio State Bar Association Board Certified Specialists in estate planning, trust and probate law. He has repeatedly been named an Ohio Super Lawyer in the category of estate planning, trust and probate law and has a Martindale Hubbell AV Preeminent rating.
Merrill names service line leader
Aric Merrill has been named Kettering Health Network's service line leader for Primary Care.
Merrill is responsible for the network’s primary care strategic planning with the goal of network alignment and promoting singular best practices for key processes. He previously served as administrative director at Fort Hamilton Hospital in Hamilton, part of the Kettering Health Network. In that role he worked with physicians, the executive team, leadership and staff to develop and carry out processes to improve delivery of care.
Merrill earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Walla Walla University in Washington. He is nearing completion of his Doctor of Law degree from Northern Kentucky University’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law, where he is expected to graduate first in his class with highest honors. He recently completed Kettering Health Network’s Advisory Board Senior Leader Fellowship program.
Rion elected board president
John H. Rion has been recently elected President-Elect of The American Board of Criminal Lawyers at their annual meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The American Board of Criminal Lawyers is a select, invitation only, group of lawyers whose membership is highly scrutinized. Rion after years of practice in the field of criminal law was made a Fellow in the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. The American Board of Criminal Lawyers was founded in San Francisco, California by the leading criminal defense lawyer in that city.
To become a Fellow, a lawyer has to have earned the respect of his or her peers and has to have won a significant amount of major cases. A Fellow has to be of the highest integrity and would only be considered to be a Fellow after at least three judges have written their opinion of the prospective Fellow. After ABCL receives these letters from judges it reviews the work of a prospective Fellow, vets the Fellow throughout the state that he or she practices and then considers the possibility of including that prospective Fellow in The American Board of Criminal Lawyers. The attorneys in ABCL reach all over the United States, Canada, and England.
Swagerty named chair
Dr. Daniel L. Swagerty Jr. has been named professor and chair of the Department of Geriatrics at Wright State University, effective April 1, 2017.
Swagerty currently serves as the associate chair for geriatric medicine and palliative care, Department of Family Medicine, and director of clinical geriatrics for the University of Kansas Medical Center. As the associate director for the Landon Center on Aging, he directs a wide range of geriatric medicine and palliative care education programs for medical and interprofessional learners. His clinical practice is devoted entirely in long-term care medicine and palliative care.
He is a past president of AMDA—The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and founded its International Special Interest Group. In addition, he has served in various leadership roles focused on advancing geriatric medical education through the American Geriatrics Society, including being an active member of its International Special Interest Group.
Swagerty earned his M.D. degree from the University of Kansas, where he also completed his family medicine residency and geriatric medicine fellowship training. He obtained his graduate degree in public health from the University of Kansas. Swagerty is a fellow in both the American Academy of Family Practice and the American Geriatrics Society, as well as a certified long-term care medical director through AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long Term Care Medicine.
Williams named to leadership role
Mark Williams has joined Beavercreek Family Medicine, a Premier HealthNet practice and in a physician leadership role for Premier HealthNet. Dr. Williams received his medical degree from University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed his residency in family medicine at Miami Valley Hospital. He has over 20 years of experience as a physician and various leadership roles, including most recently Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Miami Valley Hospital.
Williams will be seeing patients at Beavercreek Family Medicine, which is located at 111 Harbert Drive, Beavercreek. To schedule an appointment call 937-208-7575.
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