Mary Ellen Ledbetter, co-owner of DME Trucking...
Mary Ellen Ledbetter, co-owner of DME Trucking in Ventura, was installed as director of Region 12 of the National Assn. of Women in Construction. She will be responsible for the region’s 20 chapters in Southern California, Hawaii and Southern Nevada.
Terry D. Hess has been named chairman and chief executive officer of Encino-based Glenfed Development Corp. The company is a development subsidiary of Glendale Federal Savings and Loan. Hess will oversee the company’s direct development and joint venture projects.
Stephen H. Fitzpatrick has expanded his regional responsibilities from being president of Covington Homes’ Orange County area to becoming president of its entire Southern California building operations. He will direct all the company’s land acquisition, planning, marketing, finance and construction in the Southland.
Pardee Construction Co. has promoted Nancy B. Smith to vice president of sales processing. She will be working out of the firm’s main office in Los Angeles, where she will coordinate residential home sales in Los Angeles, San Diego and Ventura counties and in Las Vegas.
Lloyd Bakan Consultants of Marina del Rey has a new staff member, Ellen Cohn. She will be providing marketing services and public relations for architectural, engineering and design firms.
Robert J. Neal joins the Sammis Co. of Irvine as vice president of acquisitions.
William M. Durslag now heads Tishman West’s Orange County/San Diego region as its vice president/regional manager.
Marina del Rey-based real estate investment firm Vistar Financial Inc. has appointed Zareh Kessedjian vice president.
The position of executive vice president and chief financial officer at Westfield Inc. has been filled by David L. Swartz, a new member of the Los Angeles firm.
Merrill Lynch has announced the appointment of Roger Ewing to its North Los Angeles division. He will supervise the company’s 17 branches located in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, plus San Fernando, Santa Clarita and San Gabriel valleys.
Albert C. Martin & Associates of Los Angeles has promoted Deborah Hillard to marketing manager for the firm’s Interior Architecture Group.
Newest member elected to the board of directors of the Business Property Council is Richard Peiser, director of the Lusk Center for Real Estate Development at USC’s School of Urban and Regional Planning.
Pamela Baldwin has been named president of the new Progressive Escrow in Woodland Hills.
John F. Tavaglione will head a new subsidiary, Inland Pacific Development Co., of the family’s Tavaglione Construction and Development Co., out of Riverside.
Morris Newman, real estate editor of the Los Angeles Business Journal, has been named to the board of directors of the Skid Row Development Corp., along with Craig Lewis of Human Resources International, Stephen Mellinger of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., Irving Steinberg of USC, real estate developer Ken Bales and Walter Franz of the brokerage firm of Rollins Burdick Hunter.
