Sonance Names Stevens Head of Marketing

Leslie R. Stevens has been appointed marketing director at Sonance in San Clemente. She was product marketing manager at Sharp Electronics in Huntington Beach.

* John Virtue has joined the Irvine office of Arter & Hadden LLP as senior counsel. He has practiced law for 42 years, 33 of them in Newport Beach. Virtue was also a founder and director of Interlink Computer Systems Inc. and a founder and director of Advanced Control Systems. He was chairman and director of Irvine National Bank from 1976 to 1978 and a founder, director and chairman of Newport Bancorp, the holding company for Coast Thrift and Loan, from 1978 to 1982.

* Betty Bishop Donellan has joined the commercial real estate finance group of First Regional Capital Advisors LLC in Irvine. Previously, she was a contract attorney with the Los Angeles law firm of Troop, Steuber, Pasich, Reddick & Tobey LLP and general counsel for Preferred Credit Corp.