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William E. Decker has been elected president of the Rotary Club of Philadelphia, a nonprofit humanitarian service organization. He is president and chief operating officer of the Hub Meeting & Event Centers in Philadelphia.

Elizabeth M. Garcia has been appointed president of the Burlington County Bar Foundation.
Elizabeth M. Garcia has been appointed president of the Burlington County Bar Foundation.Read more

William E. Decker has been elected president of the Rotary Club of Philadelphia, a nonprofit humanitarian service organization. He is president and chief operating officer of the Hub Meeting & Event Centers in Philadelphia.

The Foreign Policy Research Institute, a nonprofit foreign-policy think tank, has elected Marina Kats and Mark E. Kronenberg to its board of trustees. Kats is a founding partner of the law firm Kats, van der Veen & Associates. Kronenberg is vice president, international business development, for Boeing Defense, Space & Security.

David J. Adelman has been named chairman of the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, a nonprofit education group working to build an educational center on the Holocaust and genocide on 16th Street and the Parkway. He is president and CEO of Philadelphia-based Campus Apartments.

Elizabeth M. Garcia has been appointed president of the Burlington County Bar Foundation and secretary of the Burlington County Bar Association. She is a shareholder at the Mount Laurel law firm of Parker McCay.

Jerry J. Maginnis has been elected vice president of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a professional association. Maginnis is managing partner for KPMG's Philadelphia office.

National Association of Insurance & Financial Advisors-Pennsylvania has elected the following officers and board members for 2012-13: B. Douglas Trainer, vice president and senior financial consultant with National Penn Bank in Pottstown, is president; Eric Weinberg, manager, financial services, with Prudential Financial, is president-elect; David L. Barrist, vice president of Barrist Insurance Group, Bala Cynwyd, is vice president; Joseph G. Marrazzo Jr., president of Marrazzo & Associates Financial Group, Harrisburg, is treasurer; William P. Krause, a financial-services representative with MassMutual Financial Group in Allentown, is national committeeman; Carina Hatfield, an agent with Weigner, Trainer & Floyd Insurance Agency, Nationwide Insurance, Pottstown, is regional vice president; and Ida M. Gates, general agent with IMG Insurance Services, and David E. Punt, an agent with State Farm Insurance, Harrisburg, are board members.

Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations, a trade group that provides policy development, advocacy, and services to member organizations and community-development corporations, has elected the following board members: Marcus Allen, CEO of ACHIEVEability; Maria Gonzalez, vice president of HACE; Melissa Kim, director of the North Fifth Street Revitalization Project at the Korean Community Development Services Center; and Kira Strong, vice president of community development at the People's Emergency Center.

Turning Points for Children, a Philadelphia nonprofit human services agency, has elected Robert Clements Jr. first vice president. He is a senior associate at Creative Financial Group, Newtown Square. James A. Stavros, director at Forensic Resolutions Inc., Philadelphia and Haddonfield, is a new board member.

The New Jersey Supreme Court has appointed John C. Connell to the board of trustees of the IOLTA Fund of the Bar of New Jersey, a statewide trust that generates funds to provide legal assistance to the poor, improvements to the administration of justice, and legal education to the public. Connell is a partner and shareholder in Archer & Greiner P.C., Haddonfield.

Anthony B. Haller, a partner and Employment, Benefits and Labor Practice Group leader at Blank Rome L.L.P., has been elected an at-large trustee of the American Inns of Court.

— Mike Zebe