Eric Hethcoat.

• BG Consultants, Inc. announced the addition of Eric Hethcoat to its staff. Hethcoat will act as project manager for the firm’s MEP Services Division. He has more than 15 years of MEP design and management experience. BG Consultants provides engineering, architectural, surveying and construction administration services in the Midwest.

• The United Way of Douglas County recently voted in four new members of its board of directors.

Kathy Bronson.

Becki Carl-Stutz.

Robert Day.

The newcomers are: Kathy Branson, vice principal at West Junior High School; Becki Carl-Stutz, practice manager at Lawrence Memorial Hospital; Robert Day, senior originator at Westar Energy; and Cindy Johnson, owner and director of TherapyWorks.

Cindy Johnson.

• Sandy Praeger, the Kansas commissioner of insurance, was among five who won 2014 Health Quality Awards from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. The NCQA’s cited Praeger’s decades of elected service working across party lines to improve health care quality as the basis for the recognition, according to a press release. Praeger, a Lawrence resident, has served as insurance commissioner since 2003.