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Wilmington Trust Corporation, the Delaware-based financial services holding company, has hired 12 corporate trust experts in its corporate client services business. The new staff members, headed by Lon LeClair, a 15-year industry veteran, specialize in providing administrative services for corporate debt issuances, corporate debt defaults, mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructurings. The other new hires are Julie Becker, Joe Clark, Peter Finkel, Frank McDonald, Tim Mowdy, Joe O’Donnell, Jeff Rose, Kristin Schillinger, Jane Schweiger, Nick Tally and Barbara Thomas.

Cornerstone Advisors, a wealth and life building firm based in Bellevue, Wash., has promoted April Kriha to client manager. Kriha is responsible for leading a team that oversees the financial affairs of various clients and their businesses. A Cornerstone employee since 2001, Kriha previously held the title of associate client manager.

The wealth management group at Birmingham, Ala.-based Compass Bank has named Cory Wilson as senior investment strategist for the Alabama market. In addition, Susan Green has joined Compass’s wealth management group as senior vice president and senior portfolio manager in the group’s Houston headquarters.

Central Park Group LLC, an independent investment advisory firm based in New York City, has named James B. Hawkes to its board. Hawkes is former chairman and chief executive officer of Eaton Vance Corp.

The private wealth management group at Minnesota-based Robert W. Baird & Co., an international, employee-owned financial services firm, has hired 12 veteran financial advisors for Baird’s new offices in Minnetonka, Minn. They are L. Larry Law, branch manager, senior vice president; James A. Anderson, senior vice president; Thomas R. Bredeson, senior vice president; Michael E. Chorley, senior vice president; David Goldenberg, senior vice president; William Teeter, senior vice president; John Wire, first vice president; Lawrence W. Carlsen, vice president; Fred Gamble, vice president; Douglas R. Sandahl, vice president; Bryan Strong, vice president; and Dan Law, vice president. Baird, established in 1919, also has offices in Europe and Asia.

The wealth management firm Weaver and Tidwell Financial Advisors Ltd. has hired Chris Toomey as a senior financial advisor and Thomas F. Parrish as an associate financial advisor. Their hiring establishes a presence in Houston of this affiliate firm of Weaver and Tidwell LLP.