• The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida gave professional artist John Bunker the 2020 Ann McDonald Baker Art Ventures Award, which includes a $10,000 unrestricted grant.
The award recognizes an artist whose work brings distinction to Northeast Florida and is named for the late Ann McDonald Baker, whose leadership helped create The Community Foundation’s Art Ventures Fund, the Arts Assembly (now the Cultural Council), Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and Greenscape, among others.
Bunker has been a professional artist for 50 years.
• Donnie Horner III will join K9s For Warriors on Feb. 24 as its major gifts officer. He was chief operating officer of Jacksonville’s Kids Hope Alliance.
• Five new members were elected to the Orange Park Medical Center board of trustees for three-year terms:
Katarzyna Walosik-Arenall, cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and Orange Park Medical Center’s chief of staff.
Former Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll, also a former state legislator.
Robert Powers, a private practitioner in the Jacksonville area with areas of expertise in obstetrics, gynecology, urogynecology and robotic laparoscopic surgery.
Rear Adm. Jack Scorby Jr., former commanding officer of Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
Bridget Roberts, CEO of Physicians Group Services.
• The Jacksonville Historical Society elected the Rev. Canon Dr. J. Allison DeFoor and David Jamison to its board of directors. Doug Milne, Harry Reagan and Wayne Wood reached their term limits and are leaving the board. DeFoor is an Episcopal priest who serves as Canon to the Ordinary to the Bishop of the Diocese of Florida. Jamison is an assistant professor of history at Edward Waters College.
In other action, the board established the positions of Historian At Large and Historian In Residence. Wood was named Historian At Large.
The society hired Kate Hallock as its first marketing and communications director. She was managing editor of the Resident Community News Group.
• Community First Credit Union appointed Naomi Paulino to its five-member, volunteer audit committee. Paulino is accounting manager for MODE Transportation in Jacksonville.
• Karen Sessions joined EdgePresence as CEO. Sessions was vice president of Millennium Challenge Corp., directing congressional and public affairs.