PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT
South Carolina Bar
Board of Governors
House of Delegates, 14th Circuit Representative
Practice and Procedure Committee
Conventions Committee
Nominating Committee
Judicial Qualifications Committee
South Carolina Bar Foundation
Board of Directors
American Board of Trial Advocates
President-Elect, Charleston, SC Chapter
American Bar Association
South Carolina Liaison, Section of Litigation
Women Advocate Committee
Defense Research Institute
Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee
Chair
Vice-Chair
Women in the Law Committee
State Liaison Subcommittee Chair
National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations
President
Vice President
Secretary
Board of Directors
Liaison, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession
The Riley Institute at Furman University’s Diversity Leadership Initiative
Lowcountry Class VIII
South Carolina Women Lawyers Association
President
Board of Directors
Beaufort County Bar Association
Secretary
Community Law Week Coordinator
Technical College of the Lowcountry
Paralegal Program Advisory Committee
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
2014 -present
2006-present
2012-present
2013-present
2008-2012
2001-2005
2014-present
2016-present
2005-2011
2016-present
2014-2016
2012-2015
2010-2011
2005-2009
2004-2005
2003-2014
2003-2014
2003
1997-2005
2000-2002
1997 & 1998
1999-2009
2014-present
2009-2010
2008-2014
2010-2015
2007-2015
2007-2015
2007-2010
2004-2007
2003
1999-2008
2004-2005
2001-2003
1995-2001
1995-1996
1999-2000
Penn Center Advisory Board
Lowcountry Legal Volunteers
President
Board of Directors
Historic Beaufort Foundation
Board of Directors
Broad River Healthcare
Board of Directors
The Surgery Center of Beaufort
Board of Directors
Beaufort Memorial Hospital Institutional Review Board
Member
Friends of Caroline Hospice
President
Vice-President
Board of Directors
League of Women Voters, Northern Beaufort County
President
Board of Directors, Voter Services Chair
Child Abuse Prevention Association
Board of Directors
South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
Best of Beaufort Annual Fund Raising Chair
Technical College of the Lowcountry
Instructor
EDUCATION
1990-1993
1986-1990
1992-1993
1992-1993
1992-1993
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC
J.D.
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
B.A., Business Management
Honors/Activities
Moot Court
Executive Board Member
1991 Stanley Cup Competition, Final 16
Student Trial Bar
Vice-President
1992 Zeliff Trial Competition
1990 First Year Student Trial Bar Competition, Quarter-Finalist
The Justice Joseph Branch American Inn of Court
bar admissions
- South Carolina Bar
- North Carolina Bar
- U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court