CBL names board member

Chattanooga, Tenn. CBL & Associates Properties announced Wednesday the appointment of Thomas DeRosa to its board of directors.

DeRosa fills the vacancy resulting from the death in February 2010 of Claude M. Ballard who served as a member of CBL's board of directors since the company’s initial public offering in 1993.

DeRosa is former vice chairman and CFO of The Rouse Co., and is currently a director of health care REIT, a NYSE-listed REIT focused on senior housing and healthcare real estate. He also serves as a director of Dover Corp., a NYSE-listed global provider of equipment, specialty systems and services for various industrial and commercial markets and as a director of Value Retail PLC, a private U.K. owner, operator and developer of high-fashion outlet shopping villages in Europe.