•Craig Wolf has won the top post at the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America, taking over as president and CEO of the company he joined six years ago as general counsel. A prosecutor by training, Wolf did a stint on the Hill as a Senate Judiciary Committee counsel under former chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). He is also a member of the Army Reserve JAG Corps.

•Mark Paoletta, who has spent a decade as the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s chief counsel for oversight and investigations, is taking a partnership at Dickstein Shapiro where he will focus on congressional probes. Paoletta is a former partner at Keck, Mahin & Cate as well as O’Connor & Hannan, and he is a veteran White House aide under the first President Bush.

•Kenneth G. Hutcheson has arrived at Troutman Sanders Public Affairs as senior vice president -Virginia, the state where he managed the gubernatorial campaign of former GOP attorney general Jerry Kilgore and advised Sen. John Warner (R). Hutcheson previously led his own Virginia consulting firm, Old Dominion Strategies.

•Frank Castro-Wehr and Diane Collins are the newest hires at James Lee Witt & Associates, the lobbying and consulting firm named for its founder, President Clinton’s former federal emergency management chief. Castro-Wehr, who will be a program specialist, comes from California-based Ecology and Environment Inc., while Collins, who will become a government relations director, served as legislative assistant and director of operations for Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) before Weldon lost his reelection bid last month.

•Walter Gorski has taken over as vice president of government affairs at the American Association for Homecare, moving from the American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association, where he was director of legislative and regulatory affairs. Gorski is also a former aide to the House Ways and Means Committee’s health panel and a former healthcare lawyer at Price Waterhouse and Black, Kelly, Scruggs & Healey.

•Charlie Sunderland of Kansas was elected president of the Portland Cement Association for 2007-’08. The group represents cement companies nationwide.