Dailey named director
of S. Arizona Red Cross
Julia Dailey is new executive director for the American Red Cross Southern Arizona Chapter.
She succeeds John Patton, who is now the regional chief operating officer for the American Red Cross Arizona-New Mexico-El Paso Region.
Dailey’s volunteer work with the Red Cross was prompted by a personal medical emergency. As a college student vacationing in Mexico, she developed a severe allergic reaction after being stung by a stingray. She was rushed to the Mexican Red Cross where she received free care.
The skills she learned during Red Cross CPR and first-aid classes helped her save a life a couple of years later. After volunteering on a disaster response team in Oregon, she decided to seek a career in the Red Cross and was hired as a disaster program manager.
Prior to her new post, she was Red Cross division disaster state relations director for Texas, Arizona and New Mexico; and worked in Honduras with the Peace Corps. She received her master’s degree in regional planning from Cornell University.
Technology Council signs up Sole de Hoop
The Arizona Technology Council hired Tracy Sole de Hoop as director of operations and events for its Southern Arizona office, which has expansion plans for Cochise, Santa Cruz and Yuma counties.
Sole de Hoop worked as a physical scientist for U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado, was the coordinator of Watershed Academy for Purdue University and cofounded a mathematics research consulting firm for the oil and gas industry. She is a board member of the El Rio Health Center Foundation, a member of the Rotary Club of Tucson and a sustaining member of the Junior League of Tucson.
She earned a bachelor’s in geology and anthropology from Southern Methodist University and a master’s in anthropology specializing in geographic information systems and remote sensing from Colorado State University.
Flower, Decker join Commerce Bank board
Kenneth W. Flower and Robert Decker joined Commerce Bank of Arizona Inc. as members of its board of directors.
Flower is the president of Tucson-based Southwest Events & Rentals Inc. Decker is a certified public accountant and president of an accounting firm.
CPA Yeanoplos to serve
on judicial review panel
Kevin Yeanoplos, of Brueggeman and Johnson Yeanoplos PC, was been appointed by the Arizona Supreme Court to serve as a public member of the Arizona Commission on Judicial Performance Review. Yeanoplos, a CPA, will serve a four-year term.
Gibbons, Gallick, Block and Wilson join Long
Long Realty announces several hirings:
- BJ Gibbons
- has joined the River/Campbell office as an associate broker. Gibbons, a licensed Realtor, is also an active attorney specializing in real estate. In her 15 years as an agent, Gibbons has consistently ranked in the top 5 percent of Tucson Realtors, Long said in a news release.
- Jodi Gallick
- and
- Sara Block
- joined the Tanque Verde office. Gallick, with 14 years of real estate experience, comes from a long line of family Realtors and brokers in Tucson. Working alongside Gallick is her mother, Block, a Tucson real estate veteran.
- Joan Wilson
- joined the Sierra Vista office. At her former brokerage in San Diego, she worked as a real estate agent, training director and mentor, and served on two San Diego Association of Realtors committees. She has a degree in psychology, ran her own marketing company in Seattle and has managed IT departments for other companies.
1st Choice Tax Services adds UA grad Tinny
David Tinny joins 1st Choice Tax Services in its new office at 3950 N. Campbell Ave.
Tinny has 15 years of experience preparing individual and small-business taxes and is a tax instructor. He has been an enrolled agent for 10 years and successfully represented dozens of clients before the IRS, 1st Choice said in a news release. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor’s degree in accounting.
