Bousquet Holstein PLLC has named ERIKA H. HOOKER as an attorney in the Trusts and Estates and Agriculture Practice Groups of the law firm. Her background growing up has provided her with the experience to address a diversity of legal matters associated with family farms. Hooker is a 2019 graduate of the Syracuse University College of Law. As a law student, she represented clients in the Elder and Health Law Clinic for elder financial-abuse cases and also served as a research assistant to Professor David Driesen, working mainly in the area of constitutional law. Hooker earned a bachelor’s degree in communications and international agriculture and rural development from Cornell University. She gained experience interning with the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Onondaga County, Inc. and also interned with a law firm in Syracuse, working in the areas of corporate law and estate planning with family farms across New York state. Prior to law school, Hooker served as an agriculture extension agent with the Peace Corps in Senegal for two years.

CHRISTOPHER PETERSON has joined Hillside Family of Agencies as the organization’s chief financial officer. Peterson is assuming the duties that Paul Perrotto had previously handled for Hillside. Perrotto retired on June 30, after 21 years with the organization. As CFO, Peterson will provide fiscal analysis and oversight for Hillside, a multi-affiliate organization with budgeted operations of $138 million as of fiscal-year 2020. He will also be a member of Hillside’s chief executive team. A resident of Webster in Monroe County, Peterson brings to Hillside nearly 25 years of experience in financial leadership, Hillside said. His experience includes 12 years as a member of the finance team of Rochester Regional Health (RRH) and the former Unity Health System. As VP of finance, he managed RRH’s general accounting, reporting, payroll, grants, foundation, audit and treasury functions. Prior to joining Unity Health in 2007, he worked for MVP Health Care and for a medical system in his home state of Indiana.