New hires and promotions

Michelle Webb has joined Mutual Benefit Group as commercial lines senior production/executive underwriter.

In this position, Webb is responsible for the profitability, growth and retention of a book of business within a designated territory.

Prior to joining MBG, Michelle worked in education from 2000-19. After that, she joined Everett Cash Mutual as a production underwriter before arriving at Mutual Benefit Group.

Awards and honors

Kenneth Horoho Jr., of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP, Pittsburgh, has been appointed president-elect of the Neighborhood Legal Services Board of Directors.

Horoho, a Johnstown native and graduate of Saint Francis University, began his one-year term as president-elect in June 2025 and will assume the role of president of NLS in June 2026. This appointment marks his third year of service on the board.

NLS, established in 1966, is a private, nonprofit corporation that was created to provide high-quality, free civil legal services to low-income individuals, the elderly, and the abused of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and Lawrence counties in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth “Beth” Manges recently received Allegany College of Maryland’s seventh Distinguished Alumni Award.

Manges is one of the founders and the first female president of the Hometown Bank of Pennsylvania, a community financial institution with seven branches and over $400 million in assets. She has more than three decades of banking, lending, and finance experience. Her career in commercial and residential banking has helped countless individuals, families, companies, and farm owners.

Manges serves on the Allegany College of Maryland Bedford County Campus Advisory Committee, the Southern Tier Education Council and the Pennsylvania Bankers Association Board of Directors. She is vice chair of the Bedford County Regional Education Foundation, treasurer of the Bedford County Chamber of Commerce Foundation and a previous member of the Bedford County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

Course completions and certifications

Tricia Johnson, Blair County director of social services, MH/ID administrator, has graduated from The Center for Excellence in County Leadership, a premier professional development program of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania program as part of the Class of 2025.

The CEL program fosters individual growth through interactive and high-level executive training aimed at improving participants’ communication, management and leadership skills. The program includes intense classes in leadership styles, managerial versatility, interpersonal dynamics, strategic planning, media management, daily communication problem solving and decision making.

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