business briefs

• Weichert, Realtors - Advantage Plus in Knoxville recently announced Jacqueline Burg, Natalie Saunders and Missy Hall have been named the top agents in the office for October.

Burg earned the overall Top Agent Award while Saunders and Hall were named the Top Selling and Top Listing agents, respectively.

• The Board of Governors of the Knoxville Bar Association recently announced Knoxville attorney Tasha Blakney as the next executive director of the association.

Blakney will be its full-time director in mid-January following the retirement of long-time director Marsha Watson.

Blakney is a long-time member of the Knoxville Bar Association, having practiced law in Knoxville since her graduation from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1999.

• Knoxville Jewish Alliance has announced Bryan Goldberg of Knoxville recently was appointed to the board of trustees of Jewish Federations of North America, the umbrella organization of KJA and one of the largest Jewish philanthropic organizations around the globe. Jewish Federations raise and distribute more than $2 billion annually, including through planned giving and endowment programs, to build flourishing Jewish communities domestically in Israel and around the world.