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By Maria Saporta

The Woodruff Arts Center has named Janine Musholt, the chief development officer for the U.S. Olympic Committee, as its new vice president of advancement.

Musholt, who will begin her new role on June 1, will succeed Beachamp Carr, who retired last year after leading the Woodruff Arts Center’s advancement efforts for 35 years.

Musholt will be responsible for the Center’s fundraising efforts, including its annual corporate campaign. She also will work closely with the fundraising efforts of the Center’s four divisions — the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the High Museum of Art and Young Audiences.

By Maria Saporta

It is the case that will never end.

On Friday, the Georgia Court of Appeals handed the Task Force for the Homeless a legal victory in its battle against the owners of the Peachtree-Pine building in downtown Atlanta.

The Court of Appeals has sent the case back to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall saying that he erred by not allowing the Task Force the opportunity to present evidence.

The Task Force has been occupying the Peachtree-Pine building although it has not owned the building for nearly two years. It was foreclosed upon in May 2010 by a company that purchased the building’s mortgages.

By Maria Saporta

Former Atlantan John Knapp has been named president of Hope College, a four-year liberal arts Christian college in Holland, Mi.

When he was in Atlanta, Knapp was founder of the Southern Institute for Business and Professional Ethics in 1993. Later that evolved into the Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business.

Knapp left Atlanta in 2008 to be the founding director of Samford Universities Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership in Birmingham. He also served as a professor of ethics and leadership.

By Maria Saporta

A sense of history filled the annual meeting of Central Atlanta Progress Thursday morning as speaker after speaker paid homage to the city’s past by looking to its future.

A surprise element of the program came when Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed appeared — primarily to highlight the recent approval by the Atlanta City Council for a new retractable roof stadium for the Atlanta Falcons.

“I don’t think there’s a better team owner in the United States than Arthur Blank,” said Reed, who also thanked Falcons President Rich McKay and Frank Poe, executive director of the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, for their perseverance during the negotiations.

By Maria Saporta

Politics was in the air at Wednesday evening’s ninth annual ”Meet & Greet” event by the Council for Quality Growth held at the Georgian Club in Cobb County.

The event honors mayors and county commission chairs from throughout the metro Atlanta region as a way of building relationships between the public and private sectors. Sixty-six elected leaders reportedly were in attendance.

U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson had been scheduled to be the keynote speaker, but he was forced to cancel at the last minute because of matters that had come up in Washington, D.C.