Former U.S. Supreme Court clerk named chair of public TV board

FORT MYERS — Southwest Florida resident Jim Hale, a onetime U.S. Supreme Court law clerk and former Target and General Mills Corp. executive, has been named chair of the WGCU Public Media Advisory Board.

Hale, who joined the board of the Southwest Florida PBS and NPR programming entity in 2013, will serve a two-year term as chair, according to a statement. He’s the board’s immediate past vice chair and follows outgoing chair Judy Bricker, the release adds.