Heffernan Appoints Butler Senior VP and Branch Manager in Orange, Calif.

Heffernan Insurance Brokers has appointed Earl Butler senior vice president and branch manager of its Orange, Calif., office. In this role, he will be charged with new business development in Southern California as manager of the Orange operations.

Butler joins Heffernan after an extensive career in insurance in Southern California, most recently at John Burnham Insurance Services, where he was a managing senior vice president. Butler has experience in both sales management as well as operations management at several brokerages in Southern California since the 1960s.